https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2024/02/27/byu-idaho-disinvites-music-prof/

"Ryan Nielsen, a nationally recognized professor of music at Utah Valley University, was pleased and proud when Brigham Young University-Idaho invited him to teach trumpet workshops and perform as a guest artist at a jazz festival on the Rexburg campus.

It felt so good to be invited back to the school where he had taught for more than a decade.

Last week, though, on the eve of the festival, Nielsen got an unexpected call from a faculty friend, saying that the invitation had been rescinded and that he was permanently banned from performing or teaching as a “speaker” at BYU-Idaho."

"The reason for this last-minute rejection? The faculty member told Nielsen it was because he had “been public about his faith transition.”

The trumpet teacher had given a lengthy online interview in 2020 about losing his belief and participation in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which owns BYU-Idaho."

This view of the issue from a mormon:

“I know so many young LDS trumpet students because I occupy a very visible position in our field,” Bergman wrote. “... They need to understand that studying at BYU-Idaho carries a severe risk if they ever encounter the problematic nature of the truth claims of the church, if they are or have family members that are LGBTQ+, they are a minority or woman, or even struggle with an issue contained within the [school’s] Honor Code. These issues are problematic for the church at large, at BYU-Provo and other church schools, but they are especially pronounced in Rexburg.”

The Alice-in-Wonderland Queen of Hearts, Rexburg version, has declared, "Off with his head!" because she doesn't like how he's blowing his horn...

EACH & EVERY TIME I see items like this, I'm reminded how far ChurchCo has left behind the Core-Basics of Christ-Like living.


Honesty, Kindness, Empathy, Altruism ... even Repentance & Forgivng are nearly 100% AWOL; they've painted themselves into a corner & throw out distractions to amuse the Sheeple.

They kicked him in the teeth. Shame on BYU-I.

Nice PR move by BYU-I. They attracted a lot more attention than the jazz concert. In case some people didn't already know they were petty doofuses.



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They are afraid that he will infect the students.

If they have moral courage, they will “encounter the problematic nature of the truth claims of the church.”

If they have no moral courage, then they’ll be just fine remaining in their fakey-fakey life.

To each their own.

Sadly, what BYU-I did was absolutely legal because it is not a state university but a privately-held religious college. The only real way to reform the situation is to publicize what BYU-I did to even more media and more members of the general public. This may help to insure that the school thinks twice before not permitting an ex-Mormon to attend an on-campus public event in the future.

Something something kicking against the pricks...just when you think churchco can’t get any more spiteful and contracted they succeed admirably...hopefully every aspiring trumpet student and enjoyer of jazz will look into just why this fellow was banned...something something article of faith nonsense...takes careful aim and still shoots self in the foot hahaha

"Leaving the Mormon Church is a miserable and traumatic experience, and bad things will happen to you. We ought to know, since we do our level best to make it a miserable and traumatic experience."

So Many MOs think of matters (like this one) in highly-legalistic terms, such as:

Well, this is the Lord's University (is BYU-I a true university?), they (the GAs, managers-clones-wanna-important-bes) have the right to include or exclude Anyone they please, no excuses or reasons are necessary (along with explanations).

That's why UBY started a legal school, so clones-sheeple and McKirke will have places to roost.

A few years back UVU had a guy coming on campus to talk. He made the 911 movies questioning what happened.
Such a protest was raised that they brought in Shawn Hannity to balance things out.

Couldn't have the kids hearing one opinion they didn't like.

The university has the right to block access to whoever they want. It doesn't make it right though.