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MikeWaters · 03-03-2011, 06:48 PM

It's a little like being on a mission. Different mission presidents have different philosophies on what can be worked out on the mission, and what necessitates sending a kid home.

My mission president tried his hardest to keep kids on their missions, although that was sometimes out of his hands. I can only think of one guy who was sent home. Why did he do it that way?

We might all agree that there is a certain kind of predator/miscreant/criminal that should be kicked out of BYU post-haste. But then there are the people that get off-track, and the question becomes what is in the person's best interest, in terms of getting them back on-track.

When I guy who hasn't been active since he was 18 years old, comes back to church at age 35, and he has a live-in girlfriend, we don't rush to assemble a council and disfellowship or excommunicate him. We try to fellowship and love, and help him make changes in his life that get him back into "full communion."

My guess is that this is what occurs in most/many cases at BYU, What percent of students are being expelled for sexual sin on an annual basis, versus the percent that are doing it, and the percent that are doing it and telling their Bishops?

03-03-2011, 06:48 PM	#20
MikeWaters Demiurge Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 36,365	It's a little like being on a mission. Different mission presidents have different philosophies on what can be worked out on the mission, and what necessitates sending a kid home. My mission president tried his hardest to keep kids on their missions, although that was sometimes out of his hands. I can only think of one guy who was sent home. Why did he do it that way? We might all agree that there is a certain kind of predator/miscreant/criminal that should be kicked out of BYU post-haste. But then there are the people that get off-track, and the question becomes what is in the person's best interest, in terms of getting them back on-track. When I guy who hasn't been active since he was 18 years old, comes back to church at age 35, and he has a live-in girlfriend, we don't rush to assemble a council and disfellowship or excommunicate him. We try to fellowship and love, and help him make changes in his life that get him back into "full communion." My guess is that this is what occurs in most/many cases at BYU, What percent of students are being expelled for sexual sin on an annual basis, versus the percent that are doing it, and the percent that are doing it and telling their Bishops?