Feds exempt BYU-Idaho from protecting transgender students from discrimination

[stephaniec]

Feds exempt BYU-Idaho from protecting transgender students from discrimination

http://www.sltrib.com/news/lds/3836354-155/feds-exempt-byu-idaho-from-protecting-transgender

Salt Lake Tribune/By ANNIE KNOX |  The Salt Lake Tribune First Published Apr 29 2016 08:03PM    •    Last Updated Apr 29 2016 10:09 pm

"Transgender students at Brigham Young University's Idaho campus are no longer protected under a federal education law designed to prevent discrimination.

After a transgender student's discrimination complaint triggered a federal investigation into the school, BYU-Idaho sought a religious waiver from extending civil rights protections to transgender students. Transitioning to a different gender conflicts with teachings of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which owns the Rexburg school, university President Clark Gilbert argued."

[Tessa James]

Make no mistake about it, BYU is subsidized by your tax dollars in hundreds of ways.  I would ask these religious institutions to therefore reimburse us for the costs of student loans, roads, bridges, streetlights and so many social services provided by the rest of us.

This is a case of having their cake and eating it too.  Yes, if you want to exist in your tax free, discriminating religious bubble please do but, expecting the rest of us to subsidize you adds insult to injury.

[Deborah]

It has nothing to do with religion because all religious beliefs are wonderful and full of sunshine.  There must be some other complex sociological cause at work here.


Sapere Aude

[Elis]

It has nothing to do with religion because all religious beliefs are wonderful and full of sunshine.  There must be some other complex sociological cause at work here.


Sapere Aude

Yep; good old ignorance.