Tribune columnist criticizes LDS education boss Clark Gilbert's push for orthodoxy at BYU.
Gordon Monson: LDS Church education boss should put down the hammer at BYU and pick up an olive branch
No longer are just the behaviors of professors — and, get this, their spouses, too — put under scrutiny, judged worthy or not by the powers that be, like Berkshire hogs at a county fair. Their specific beliefs are evaluated as well. They might answer standardin an acceptable manner, a manner that qualifies them to enter the faith’s holiest places, and still be rejected.
Be careful how you respond to that inquiry if you ever want to teach at BYU. However that question is answered — despite what Gilbert & Co. think — is not a reflection of where your true spirituality rests. It’s a reflection rather of what it is: a harsh measure put in place by humans that is intrusive when put to other humans, folks who are doing what they can to follow their faith, to be real believers and true to themselves.
If at times issues over policies arise that they have questions or doubts regarding, some of them have been made to feel as though they cannot share those questions or doubts with their ecclesiastical leaders because those issues might put their endorsements to teach at BYU in peril. What an awful condition for any believer to face.
That kind of approach — far beyond what is taught and anticipated or required in the main body of the church — is more than frightening. It’s dangerous.
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