Iowa State Student Government Opposes BYU’s Big 12 Candidacy Because Fuck BYU
9 years ago

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Brigham Young University is one of the few college football teams that still doesn’t belong to a conference. They have long been rumored to be joining the Big 12, and Iowa State has recently taken a stance against that prospect.

From Yahoo! Sports:

The student government passed a resolution 21-6 Wednesday night that disavows BYU’s candidacy on the basis that the school’s “discriminatory policies and practices are inconsistent with the values of the Big 12.”

The reasoning stems from BYU’s honor code. The Church of Jesus Christ and Latter-day Saints school’s honor code bars “sexual relations” between members of the same sex and “all forms of physical intimacy that give expression to homosexual feelings.”

One of the main reasons for this vote probably has something to do with the seeming lack of consequences for sexual assault accusations at BYU. From what I’ve seen in recent history, people who are raped at BYU tend to get punished more than their aggressor. That shit’s pretty fucked up, and it looks like this vote by the Iowa State student government is their way of sticking it to BYU.

Backward policies and questionable values are reason enough for the conference to be apprehensive, but there are plenty of other reasons not to want anything to do with BYU. One could bring up their stupid mascot, their location in the worst city in Utah (Provo), their dirty play on the field and basketball court, or basically anything else about them. What I’m saying is, Fuck BYU and everything they stand for.

[via Yahoo! Sports]

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  3. BetaThetaBye

    Being a current student of Iowa State, this is one of the few times our name is brought up in the same sentence as the Big 12 in a positive way. Nice

    9 years ago at 5:31 pm
  4. AriGold9

    Iowa State lost to Northern Iowa week 1. Maybe, they should focus on being able to beat FCS schools.

    9 years ago at 5:36 pm
  5. Bro-hann Sebastian Bach

    If you have homosexual feelings take that shit to the pac 12 cope

    9 years ago at 5:39 pm
  7. GeorgeH31

    Honestly if BYU wanted to join a conference say 20 even 30 years ago they’d have no problem getting in. The fact is that BYU is a religious school makes it hard even though we are an “acceptant society” they turn their back on people religious believe. What if Notre Dame wants to join a conference do you think that they’ll get reject for their beliefs of Catholicism. Just because a school is religious doesn’t mean you get to dictate their rights and same goes for the LGBT community throwing stones in glass houses.

    TL;DR BYU should be allowed to play in a conference because of athletics not beliefs

    9 years ago at 7:04 pm
    1. PurdueAF

      No, BYU could have gotten in 20 or 30 years ago because their athletics weren’t shit then.

      9 years ago at 8:17 pm
  8. ThadSmashle

    After they get smashed this weekend no power conference will want them anyway

    9 years ago at 7:13 pm
  9. Sigepute

    Fuck BYU. School is a Bastian or racism and homophobia. Let those fuckers rot in hell or what ever bullshit make believe stuff that Joseph Smith pulled out of his pedophilia loving asshole.

    9 years ago at 11:39 pm
  10. America_the_bootyful

    To be fair, inter-sex relations are also outlawed but the Word of Wisdom, the honor code BYU holds its students and athletes to. But then again, so is coffee actually so they obviously have no reasoning behind anything

    9 years ago at 1:11 am