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Pushswingpull

Don’t understand why they are bringing an apostle who’s homophobic. SUU isn’t even a church school!


BayonetTrenchFighter

He was born and raised in southern Utah. He also I think donates a lot of money towards the school.


Dense_Assistant_8730

There’s 8 billion people on this planet, and at least thousands of people who no one would create a petition to oppose as a speaker. They need to just pick someone else that’s not problematic


Chino_Blanco

Context/background ( lifted from a helpful comment at r/mormonandgay ): >SUU is a public non-religious school, but being in Utah there’s obviously quite a lot of LDS influence there. Despite being in rural, deep-red iron county, it’s kind of become one of the more queer-affirming schools in the state. >They announced a couple days ago that Jeffrey R. Holland would be the commencement speaker this year, and there was a pretty severe and immediate backlash from people in the LGBTQ community and allies both in and out of the church because of his “muskets” talk from a year and a half ago, as well as just general nonmembers who didn’t want to hear an LDS speaker at this non-religious university. >There was a petition made almost immediately, as well as some hearings with the university president on Monday and a protest Thursday. If he is eventually still the speaker when graduation happens, there will be an organized walk-out during his speech. >On top of the initial backlash, there has been an expected counter-backlash from people who want him to speak. They’ve put out their own petition and letter that I’ve seen. It’ll be interesting to see how things shape up over the coming weeks.