BYU professor calls gay student a Book of Mormon term associated with anti-Christ
The school has not reacted publicly, leaving some LGBTQ students fearful and spurring others to ask for action.
(Isaac Hale | Special to The Tribune) A Brigham Young University student sports various rainbow-colored items on his backpack in support of Rainbow Day as he walks with his friends on the campus of BYU in Provo on Thursday, March 4, 2021. A student at the school was recently called a Mormon term associated with an anti-Christ by a professor. The school has remained silent.
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BYU has rejected three separate COVID aid allocations from the federal government, passing up over $170 million. (Sydnee Gonzalez)
BYU is turning down $88,556,823 in federal COVID aid at least $44,336,287 of which would have gone directly to students had BYU accepted the funding.
This is the latest round of federal stimulus in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. BYU turned down both of the previous COVID funding allocations offered to it, passing up over $170 million between the three aid packages.
University spokesperson Carri Jenkins said BYU’s reasons for not accepting each aid package are the same and referred The Daily Universe to a May 2020 press release, which states BYU did not request federal aid and can provide for its students using its own funds. During the first round of funding in early 2020 through the CARES Act, BYU opted to use its own resources to provide students with COVID relief funding to cover unexpected costs related to the pa
| Updated: May 9, 2021, 11:06 p.m.
Mormonism’s Heavenly Mother has gone mainstream.
She is the topic of a number of books on sale at Deseret Book, which is owned and operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She has spawned essays (including an official one from the faith), poetry, a one-woman play, hymns, art shows, even academic debates.
She has been embraced as part of the church’s Young Women theme, which was updated in 2019 to say: “I am a beloved daughter of Heavenly Parents, with a divine nature and eternal destiny.”
There is a tidal wave of interest in this divine feminine among Latter-day Saints, observers say. It has become almost a movement.