View press release here. 22 Oct 2015 — Today, FreeBYU received acknowledgment from the American Bar Association (ABA) that they received our recently filed religious discrimination complaint against the accreditation of J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University (BYU Law). BYU Law subjects students and faculty to the BYU Honor Code, under which[…]
LDS students at BYU who make public their changes of religious conscience risk being evicted from their homes and apartments. Many of these students are not aware that they can successfully challenge such an eviction under both the Utah and federal Fair Housing Acts. Below is the formula for challenging a religious eviction.* Eligibility: To[…]
In the last blog post, someone suggested that the reason BYU expels former LDS students is because BYU doesn’t want “anti-Mormons” around: I understand your argument and intuition on why you believe this is wrong for BYU to expel students based on a change in beliefs. However, it doesn’t take long in the Book of Mormon[…]
When people learn about the Free BYU movement, many understandably respond similarly to the following: “Is BYU really violating the religious freedom of its students? As a private institution funded by tithing money, BYU has every right to set its own rules for people who willingly choose to study there. If people don’t like those[…]