{"id":620,"date":"2017-12-11T13:39:26","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T20:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dh17.chalcedonyco.com\/?p=51"},"modified":"2017-12-12T13:02:50","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T20:02:50","slug":"this-may-be-mhttp-dh17-chalcedonyco-com-wp-content-uploads-2017-12-1200px-brigham_young_university_medallion-svg_-pngy-lonhttp-dh17-chalcedonyco-com-wp-content-uploads-2017-12-1200px-brigham_young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briancroxall.net\/f17dh\/student-posts\/this-may-be-mhttp-dh17-chalcedonyco-com-wp-content-uploads-2017-12-1200px-brigham_young_university_medallion-svg_-pngy-lonhttp-dh17-chalcedonyco-com-wp-content-uploads-2017-12-1200px-brigham_young\/","title":{"rendered":"This May Be My Longest Rant Yet"},"content":{"rendered":"

While I was reading God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen<\/em>, I found my mi<\/p>\n

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e short story and I would like to open a discussion about him.<\/p>\n

While I understand this story is fictional and set in a different time period, I think it is very relatable to what a lot of students go through at BYU and what growing up in an LDS home is like.<\/p>\n

Sex is considered a taboo. Even the talk of desires is forbidden. But as stated in the short story, \u201cThere\u2019s nothing wrong with you. That\u2019s the way you\u2019re supposed to be. There\u2019s nothing wrong with that.\u201d And yet, it goes undiscussed in families, in classrooms, or among partners. No wonder there have been cases of BYU girls leaving their honeymoons early because they didn’t understand what sex was. For a couple to think they were trying to have a baby, when they were using the belly button has a sex organ. Sex and physical intimacies is just wildly misunderstood among the mormon culture. And it needs to change. It makes us naive, and there is no greater danger than misunderstanding. BYU is a place to “Come forth to Learn”. No student should leave without understand what sex is, that is is okay to do once you are married, and how it is important to the Plan of Salvation.<\/p>\n

And while that is an issue all in itself, what about BYU’s honor code? We are told to forgive one another. To not judge. To be compassionate, and yet BYU has a harsh punishment system. Don’t get me wrong, I think the honor code is great. \u00a0I think we should have a set of standards to follow as a community. I just don’t believe casting someone from our mists is very christ like either.<\/p>\n

Think about it. BYU forces many students to make the choice. Either they are expelled from their school or they face eternal consequences. No wonder they is a staggering amount of expelled, BYU students that go inactive after leaving BYU. They loose everything important to them. Yes, there should be a punishment. Yes, it is very serious. But how dare we judge and inflict our own punishment to another person? Yes, they messed up. But do we really have to take everything away from them? Do we have to make this process harder than it has to be?<\/p>\n

It is a mistake. But not the end of the world. We talk of repentance and forgiven in our required religion courses, but it is not practiced on campus.<\/p>\n

Wouldn’t it be better for them to stay on campus and be uplifted by the other students on campus? To have friends and a support system available? How dare we cast them out because they are not perfect? Let the perfect student or faculty cast the first stone.<\/p>\n

BYU truly is an amazing school, but to call it the LDS school is false. If we want to be seen as a school that represent our values, we have to be willing to follow our morals in all situations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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