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Date: March 22, 2023 08:46PM
https://www.deseret.com/opinion/2023/3/20/23649680/elder-holland-deserves-to-be-heard-at-southern-utah-university“We’ve witnessed campus cancellation campaigns. Elder Holland deserves to be heard at Southern Utah University.
By making space for a diversity of perspectives on college campuses, we are walking the talk of inclusion and belonging.
….. But intention really does matter. In the case of Elder Holland, his full remarks make clear that his intent was to call for more robust efforts to “defend” his faith tradition and teachings — not to attack a particular community, and certainly not to justify physical violence…..”
Really?
https://slate.com/human-interest/2021/09/mormon-lds-church-gay-rights-controversy-byu-speech.html“Jeffrey R. Holland, Brigham Young University’s former president and a senior apostle in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, gave an inflammatory speech to BYU faculty and staff. In it, he urged faculty to take up metaphorical muskets to defend the faith. He called on them to be both builders of knowledge and defenders of the institution—the church—that determines whether the university exists and the faculty get funding to do their jobs, a fact he reminded them of multiple times in the speech. His words were unmistakably a call to arms: Holland used the word “fire” 10 times, “musket” eight times, and made multiple references to “friendly fire,” “wounds,” and “scarring.” In particular, he called for “more musket fire” from BYU’s faculty to defend Mormonism’s official position on the inferiority and social dangers of same-sex relationships and marriages.”
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