The Mormon universities are implementing new unethical and horrific rules for BYU professors.

[mormonstories]

Watch the entire episode on our YouTube channel! Episode 1980.

[mitchrichardson]

BYU accepts over 200 million a year in federal funds/ Pell grants. I think it's fair to question if these rules are OK

[persia]

Don’t worry, they’re not real universities anyway. Just an extension of homeschool and a place for students to find a Mormon spouse.

[Chelts]

The only way to disempower BYU is to encourage other football teams to refuse to play the cougars and make it embarrassing to play for them.

[ilikeceral]

What if a potential faculty member is a widow/widower? Do they dig up their spouse’s corpse?

[critterscute]

I just don’t understand how so many people with working brains in their head subscribe to this lunacy and control 🤷🏻‍♀️

[kdholden]

What are the consequences if you violate the terms? Also, requiring an employee to pay 10% of their income The church seems highly illegal

[tawneenielsen]

If spouse stops going they may have to say they have a chronic illness. I guess more creativity will be required

[MsCaterific]

Like Janet Jackson so eloquently put it, "Control".

[lillian_hope]

As usual it's about protecting the "good" name of the church and maintaining the image of its leaders that they want to portray. If a professor's spouse wasn't active, that could diminish the image of the university and the standard set for young Mormons when it comes to marriage (oh no!).

[scotthamp]

BYU is not a highly ranked university for a reason.

[ZelphBallard-bgmt]

byu is not a university and should change its name and remove 'university' from it. Under these conditions this will severely limit and academics ability to investigate, test, and discover new knowledge

[stuartwalker]

Well, BYU, good luck having your research being taken seriously in the academic marketplace of ideas.

[mckster]

What. If your spouse asks what about your founding profit had children for one of his 30 wives? Is that a peoblem

[ChrisS-dtvq]

I believe they brought this up on themselves. I remember back in about late 80's BYU started hiring "outsiders" to the staff. I was appalled! There were students telling about their professors and class interactions. Unreal to me as a former BYU (tbm) student. Then my Jewish coworker told me how her brother, the phyicitrist, was recruited to SLC to help the community. Things were shaky then and kept going down hill.

[naturelovin-]

A few quotes to some it up:
"Sometimes you have to swallow your pride and do what you have to do to survive." - Anonymous
"The rent is due, whether you believe in it or not." - Unknown
"A paycheck can silence a lot of doubts." - Unknown
"When the stomach is empty, even the most distasteful food tastes good." - Proverb
"Necessity is the mother of invention, and sometimes, the mother of compromise." - Unknown
"The heart may not be in it, but the bank account is." - Unknown

[cvan]

'cause it's a cult. Run away!

[missknowitall]

I think a lot of couples start to favor each other. You start doing the same expressions sometimes and stuff like that. It’s just love visible!

[daretobeamormon]

Jon: "The Mormons are always stretching the facts."
Also Jon: This video

[newrootswoodwork]

Don't take their choices so personal. Your emotional and visceral responses are too dramatic. It's not horrific and it's not terrible. The church does what it does to keep the minions in line and their revenue stream intact. They are trying to stem the tide of people leaving. They've done it all along to every church employee. Now they are doubling down with adding spouses in there. My Dad was a church employee in the 70's-90's. He had to maintain his temple recommend to stay in management and keep his job. We didnt think anything about it because the brethren would never lead us astray. It's all designed to keep us in line and stay in the boat. Bow your head and say yes.