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Message: [QUOTE="jostar1, post: 1766577, member: 1737"] [B]Stewart Mandel‏@slmandel [/B] BREAKING: National LGBT groups are urging the Big 12 to drop BYU from consideration over alleged discrimination. [B]Dan Wolken ‏@DanWolken[/B] · 1h1 hour ago Not surprised by this. BYU's honor code is a sensitive topic but deserves scrutiny [B]Dan Wolken ‏@DanWolken [/B] · 60m60 minutes ago If you're a school kicking out students or firing faculty for being gay in 2016 it's a bad association for Big 12 schools and that's a fact [B]riboflavin‏@riboflavinLLC [/B] @DanWolken that's not happening dan. [B]Dan Wolken ‏@DanWolken [/B]· 55m55 minutes ago I can't speak to what's happening but what's in the honor code makes a lot of people uncomfortable. [B]Dan Wolken ‏@DanWolken[/B] · 48m48 minutes ago @riboflavinLLC But if you are in a legal same sex marriage you cannot work there. [B]Dan Wolken ‏@DanWolken ·[/B] 37m37 minutes ago This isn't complicated. It may be rooted in religious reasons, but BYU's policy is discriminatory. There is no explaining it away. [B]Scottish Cougar‏@ScottishCougar[/B] @DanWolken so BYU shouldn't be able to uphold any standards in line with its core beliefs/teachings? [B]Dan Wolken ‏@DanWolken[/B] · 1h1 hour ago They should be. That doesn't have anything to do with the Big 12 voluntarily associating with such a place [/QUOTE]