Recently BYU changed their honor code to simply state that students are committing to “Live a chaste and virtuous life, including abstaining from any sexual relations outside a marriage between a man and a woman.” CES Honor Code. Prior to this change, the Honor Code had a detailed clause that homosexual behavior like kissing or dating was against the Honor Code.

When news broke that the Church removed the homosexuality clause from the Honor Code and instead was focusing on Chastity for all people regardless of their orientation, the reactions were mixed. Some BYU professors and students, and many news outlets, took the change as the Church approving of same-sex relationships.

My wife, who is a BYU student, asked me about the change. I simply replied, “People who think this is the Church allowing gay dating are the same people that think that Ministering meant we did not need to Home Teach people monthly.” But in reality, the true crux of the problem is much deeper and nefarious and it has to do with Satan attacking the plan of salvation. Here are the three underlining problems that surfaced with these changes.

Members don’t understand the basics of the Plan of Salvation.

The entire point of the plan of salvation is to exalt the sons and daughters of God. Most every member understands that, BUT when you ask them “what is exaltation?” the answers start going all over the place. “It is to be a god”, “It means I get to make planets”, and “It means I become like Heavenly Father” are common answers I hear from Young Single Adults and even married members. But what does it really mean? For that, I will turn to the Prophet Ezra Taft Benson, who taught, “Exaltation is eternal fatherhood and eternal motherhood.” (‘To the Elect Women of the Kingdom of God,’ Nauvoo Illinois Relief Society Dedication, 30 June 1978.)” (Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson, 548).

Exaltation is about creating an eternal family unit. And a family unit, as defined by God, is a husband and wife that have been sealed by the Holy Priesthood and entered into the Patricharal Order of the Priesthood. For those of you who are not understanding, the crux of the plan of salvation is eternal heterosexual marriage with the ability to have an eternal increase in your prosperity.

So when you have progressive members of the Church wanting gay marriage, they have missed the fundamental boat. The literal plan is exalting people! And exalting people to live in a heterosexual relationship and the continuation of their seed. To want the Church to accept and endorse gay marriage would be asking the Church to forsake the plan of salvation and tell people to settle for less than exaltation.

Dating has been sabotaged.

Understanding that the fundamental unit of the plan of salvation is heterosexual marriage it makes total sense that there is an all-out war by Satan on marriage. The easiest way to destroy marriages is to start before they are even formed.

Dating is the gate to marriage, and Satan’s attacks are focused on it. For those who have not been in the dating scene recently, they won’t understand what is going on. Dating has plummeted. Guys and girls just are not going on dates. I know countless friends who have not gone on any dates lately. Their reasons range from being too busy with work/school or simply a fear of dating.

The youth have been told that the purpose of dating is to find your spouse so many people have taken that to the extreme and are unwilling to ask a girl or accept a date from a guy unless they would be willing to marry them. To those people I would say you never know, I was friend-zoned five times by my wife and suddenly it changed one day and now she always says how thankful she was that I was respectfully persistent.

But unfortunately, that is not the advice many YSA’s get. Instead, I always got the advice that dating was to have fun, it needed to be low pressure, explore what you like. Dating did not need to lead to marriage. It was ok to date someone, with no plans of marrying them. Of my friends who do date, many of then have subscribed to this ideology. They date people, though not because they are courting them, but rather because they like the companionship and their non-commital physical benefits like kissing, cuddling, etc.

By shifting the meaning and purpose of dating from preparation for marriage to having fun, dating has been sabotaged. People fail to see that your physical feelings will increase the longer you are with someone, this normally will lead to marriage, but with this corrupted version of dating they are playing with fire and their covenants as they play with the line. If the goal is to keep our covenants and be exalted, then this is nothing less than sabotage.

Adding to this issue is members wanting and encouraging people to date those of the same gender. Within the context of the plan of salvation, there is no logical or righteous reason for same-sex dating, only extreme potential for sin.

Woke professors are mingling scriptures with their philosophies.

The situation at BYU has become toxic, there are progressive professors who are teaching the philosophies of men, mingled with scripture. With a student body ever obsessed with their GPA, very few students are willing to question a professor, therefore often their preaching goes unchallenged. This situation is not unique to BYU, but for many members, it will come as a shock to realize how radicalized professors have become.

These professors are pushing their ideologies on students teaching a woke progressive version of the gospel. I have had a friend tell me that the US constitution is outdated and does not protect our rights. Curiously I replied, “life, liberty and the pursuit of property are covered, what right is missing?” He replied, “The right to work, the right to food, the right to housing, the right to healthcare,” I told him, “That sounds like the USSR’s constitution” to which he replied, “They did have a good one.” This is just one example, others include my wife being told by her professors IN CLASS that it is “100% ok with the Church” for women to “self explore” (aka masturbate) to learn how they are pleasured.

Other friends have lost testimonies of the early Church leaders as professors have taught that Brigham Young was a racist, others have stopped reading the Book of Mormon because of their professors, and others still preach that Columbus was evil and so were all the founding fathers. That is not to even mention other professors that preach about micro-aggressions, and how all their students have white privilege and are racists.

But the ultimate example of professors mingling the gospel with their philosophies would be how Professor Brau told his students that many people have been praying for this change and it was a “watershed” moment and that gay dating is now allowed at BYU. He even went so far as to challenge those who struggled with his interpretation of the changes by questioning those students’ testimony of living prophets. (Click here for the article about his lecture).

The Church’s Response.

After Professor Brau’s preaching, the Church responded quickly. BYU’s official spokesperson said that professor Brau does not speak on behalf of BYU. The Acting President of the Quorum of the Twelve visited BYU on the following Tuesday and taught That we needed to keep the two great commandments to love the Lord and our neighbor. He also emphasized that our ultimate identity was as children of God.

And then two days later Elder Paul V. Johnson, Commissioner of the Church Educational System (CES) wrote the following to clarify: “Same-sex romantic behavior cannot lead to eternal marriage and is therefore not compatible with the principles included in the Honor Code.” Protests from students ensued, one person on KSL commented that they thought the Church was making ‘progress’ but that this letter just undid all of it.

A lot of people have attacked the Church saying what they are doing is unChristlike, and unloving. But quite the opposite. True love comes from God, true love is the glue the binds the Plan of Salvation together. This love prohibits them from endorsing a lifestyle that leads to spiritual damnation.

Conclusion.

Before we came to earth we all agreed this is what we wanted to do. We accepted the Plan of Exaltation. Here on earth, we are all asked to live the same commandments and keep our covenants. For each one of us, we will have our cross to bear, the commandment that is more difficult for us than the average member. In the words of Elder Maxwell, “only the Lord can compare crosses!” So be merciful! Be loving, and resist the temptation to judge others. To quote Maxwell again, “When, for the moment, we ourselves are not being stretched on a particular cross, we ought to be at the foot of someone else’s—full of empathy and proffering spiritual refreshment.”

No matter who you are, where you have been, or where you are at, it is through Christ that we can make and keep our covenants and endure to the end and be rewarded with eternal life.

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