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The organization has petitioned the university, [11] as well as several of its accreditors claiming that it does not meet requirements for religious freedom. [12] [13] [14] These include the American Psychological Association [15] and the American Bar Association [10] [16] which resulted in a change to BYU's honor code in 2016. [17]
Camille Fronk Olson is a retired professor and former chair of Brigham Young University's (BYU) Department of Ancient Scripture in Religious Education and a scholar who has written multiple books on the role of women in the scriptures. She has also spoken widely in various forums on Latter-day Saint beliefs, especially as they relate to women.
To provide students with opportunities for both spiritual and intellectual insight, BYU has hosted weekly devotional and forum assemblies since the school's early days. [103] Devotionals are most common and address religious topics, often with academic perspective or insight.
LGBTQ students and advocates at BYU in Utah slammed the school for requiring all freshmen read a controversial 2021 speech that they say incited violence and hatred against the queer community.
September – In a BYU Devotional address Ronald A. Rasband invites students to discuss LGBT rights and religious freedom and to write comments on his Facebook post. [200] [205] The address was later reprinted in a church magazine. [206] 2015 – In a survey of 92 LGBTQ BYU students done by USGA, 52% had at some point considered self-harm. [194]
In 2008 the newsletter was replaced by BYU Religious Education Review, a semiannual magazine. [49] In 2000, Dean Robert L. Millet and others created the Religious Educator journal to focus on "teaching the gospel, publishing studies on scripture, doctrine, and LDS Church history, and sharing the messages of outstanding devotional essays."
His speech given at BYU, His Grace is Sufficient, [8] is "the most viewed speech of all time among BYU speeches, [9] and has more than 400,000 views on YouTube," according to Deseret News. [10] On April 4, 2020, Wilcox was called as second counselor to Steven J. Lund in the LDS Church's Young Men general presidency. [ 11 ]
Academic freedom at Brigham Young University (BYU) has been the subject of several controversies, mostly focusing on its religious nature. In 1992, BYU issued a statement limiting academic freedom in certain areas, including language that attacked the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), and language that violates the university's honor code.