Popular BYU Randy Bott Takes Heat for Comments

[_Joseph Antley]

One of BYU's most popular professors is taking some heat for some comments made in a Washington Post interview about blacks and the priesthood ban. Read muh blog post about it.

[_just me]

God is full of win.

iCan't

[_LDSToronto]

Your blog post is neutral. Do you support Bott's comments and will you be protesting, Antley?

[_Doctor Scratch]

Great post, Young Antley. You should add in there that LDS priesthood leaders routinely council the youth about the problems they might encounter if they enter into interracial relationships.

[_Joseph Antley]

Your blog post is neutral. Do you support Bott's comments and will you be protesting, Antley?

I don't plan on protesting but may cover the protest out of interest. I don't support his comments and think it's inappropriate for BYU religion professors to make comments like this to the media without insisting that the reporter point out that they are not authorities.

[_LDSToronto]

And PS - I love the light Romney has shed on the church. We all knew the place was full of douchebags, now the rest of the world can see it, too.

H.

[_LDSToronto]

Your blog post is neutral. Do you support Bott's comments and will you be protesting, Antley?

I don't plan on protesting but may cover the protest out of interest. I don't support his comments and think it's inappropriate for BYU religion professors to make comments like this to the media without insisting that the reporter point out that they are not authorities.

Universities are built for protest. Not for cowards.

H.

[_Doctor Scratch]

Your blog post is neutral. Do you support Bott's comments and will you be protesting, Antley?

I don't plan on protesting but may cover the protest out of interest. I don't support his comments and think it's inappropriate for BYU religion professors to make comments like this to the media without insisting that the reporter point out that they are not authorities.

Who *is* an authority if not a highly-rated BYU religion prof? Should every last single question be directed to the General Authorities, who won't say anything?

[_LDSToronto]

Your blog post is neutral. Do you support Bott's comments and will you be protesting, Antley?

I don't plan on protesting but may cover the protest out of interest. I don't support his comments and think it's inappropriate for BYU religion professors to make comments like this to the media without insisting that the reporter point out that they are not authorities.

Wait... BYU religion professors are not authorities on the very religion they practice? The very religion they teach?

What kind of two-bit hacks are BYU hiring?

Oh, wait, you mean, priesthood authorities? You really think anyone outside the church gives a rat's ass about priesthood authority? They hear an LDS religious professor, working for the official church run university, commenting on theological basis of past racial policies held by the LDS church. What more authority is needed?

H.

[_Joseph Antley]

Who *is* an authority if not a highly-rated BYU religion prof?

The LDS clergy who have the word "authority" in their title.