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Ep. 124 - Brad Levin, Director of FreeBYU

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2016

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Brad Levin is the director of FreeBYU, a group whose mission is to "promote freedom of thought and freedom of religion at Brigham Young University." We spoke about how BYU punishes students who become ex-Mormons, why BYU's law school nearly lost its accreditation, and the progress his group has made in changing the Honor Code at the school. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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restrictions and teasencies apply 18 plus. Brad Levine is the director of

0:49.2

free BYU a group whose mission is to quote promote freedom of thought and freedom of religion at Brigham Young University.

0:57.0

We'll talk about where BYU is falling short on that, the specific problems Brad is trying to solve and the latest news on

1:04.1

BYU's position. The reason I was really interested in talking to him is because I

1:09.6

had no idea any of this was going on at BYU. And so Brad, before we get into your group specifically, can you kind of walk us through

1:19.5

BYU's old policy as it relates to students of different faiths?

1:24.1

Because I always thought this was a Mormon-only school,

1:27.3

and I only recently learned, like, no, there are non-Mormans who go there, too.

1:32.2

Yeah, I would be happy to and that's a pretty common conception since it is sponsored by

1:36.4

the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from Mormons. A lot of people think that only Mormons attend

1:41.2

as students and our professors, but the reality is a little more

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