Jeff & Konnor's Blog

Professor Jeffrey Nielsen was fired by Brigham Young University for writing a letter to the editor of the Salt Lake Tribune opposing the Church’s stance on the gay marriage amendment. "Truly," Nielsen writes, "God would be unjust if He were the creator of a biological process that produced such uncommon, yet perfectly natural results, and then condemned the innocent person to a life of guilt, while denying him or her the ordinary privileges and fulfillment of the deep longing in all of us for family and a committed, loving relationship."

According to the school, "The [philosophy] department made the decision because of a recent opinion piece that publicly contradicted and opposed a statement by the First Presidency. Such contradiction is in violation of university policy." Wow. It seems to us that if you really believed in your religion and the ideals of education, you’d let people state their own opinions and make up their own minds.