Opinion: BYU’s claim to be exempt from federal anti-discrimination rules gets more suspect all the time, writes George Pyle.
”) who were permitted to do good and kind things for people because they were men of the cloth.
Anybody else trying to help reform juvenile delinquents or rescue orphans might be looked upon as a wimp or a chump or have his motives questioned. But these movie priests, characters who’d often grown up on the mean streets themselves, got a pass from expectations of society. BYU’s exemption from Title IX goes back a long way, and is based on the idea that the institution’s “religious freedom” allows it to ignore standards that the rest of society is subject to — especially when those other institutions accept, as BYU does, federal funds in the form of scholarships and grants.Still, all this retrograde behavior by religious organizations claiming to be above the laws that everyone else has to obey isn’t in anyone’s longterm interest.
There is an argument that a religion that expects more of its adherents, that sees itself and its members as apart from the rest of the world, can attract and hold a more committed membership than can a church that doesn’t throw its weight around and just hopes you show up on Easter and Christmas.
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