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In a recent story for the Salt Lake Tribune, the reporter Peggy Fletcher Stack, exposed this growing climate

of unease and fear that has settled among the faculty at Brigham Young University.

At the center of all of this is a man named Clark Gilbert. He's the Commissioner of Education

for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He oversees BYU and the church's other

colleges and seminaries.

And this is not just a management role.

Gilbert is also a general authority with the church. That's an ecclesiastical position.

And part of his calling is to make sure the church's education system lines up with its religious

principles.

Several months ago now, Peggy discovered that Clark Gilbert had been telling people privately,

he doesn't think those two areas, academics, and doctrine, are perfectly aligned at BYU.

I started working on this story in March.

When I got a text from a friend who had heard Clark Gilbert give a presentation to a Salt Lake City dinner group.

This group included lots of prominent Salt Lake Latter-day Saints. Former mission presidents, 70, historians, scholars.

And Clark Gilbert gave this presentation, talking about BYU,

and laid out, among other things, these four categories of faculty.

Those who fully support church doctrine and bring spirituality into the classroom. Those who mostly support, but not enough for Mr. Gilbert. Those who have

some questions. And the fourth category was, quote, open foes.

And according to this tipster who took notes, he said the open foes category, they've got to go.

They oppose church leaders, and church leaders do not put up with that.

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