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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.
BYU president Oaks instituted a system of surveillance to identify and expel or attempt to "cure" homosexual students in the '70s. 1974 – BYU president Oaks delivers a speech on campus in which he speaks in favor of keeping criminal punishment for "deviate sexual behavior" such as private, consensual, same-sex sexual activity. The speech is ...
Pamphlet containing the apostle Boyd K. Packer's 1978 BYU speech on homosexuality. 1978 – Apostle Packer delivered the sermon "To the One" at BYU [ 39 ] in response to the recent controversy generated from a widely circulated pro-gay pamphlet by a gay BYU student and gay BYU instructor.
1962 – BYU president Ernest L. Wilkinson states in a speech to the student body that people with homosexual feelings will not be allowed to enroll or remain as students, since they contaminate the campus. [3] [4] [5]: 154 1963 – Elouise Bell begins teaching in the BYU English Department. Bell lived with and was in a long-term relationship ...
Brigham Young University's stated purpose is to "assist individuals in their quest for perfection and eternal life". [1] It is common for prayers to be spoken in classes. This tradition began during the time when Brigham Young was actively involved with the university. [2] BYU is considered by many Latter-day Saints to be "The Lord's University".
In a 1971 speech to a BYU faculty group, Martin B. Hickman, then the dean of BYU's College of Social Sciences, argued that the decision to join the BYU faculty reflected an acceptance of the values of the university and thus anyone who joined the faculty with this proper mindset would not have any academic freedom issues while there. [3]
Kevin J Worthen (born April 15, 1956) [1] is an American professor who served as the 13th president of Brigham Young University (BYU) from 2014 to 2023. From 2010 to 2021, he also served as an area seventy in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). [2]
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 ]