Humor will not be tolerated!! -Portia

Just...it blows me away when people think these laws are ABOUT THEM and they're not.

I asked this Board question freshman year and everyone put so much effort into it. I think it made me feel better than the actual content of the responses. It also made me want to be a Board writer so I could write nice answers for other people.

Vancouver is a city. British Columbia is a province.

Candid needs to realize that Vancouver is to Canada as San Francisco is to the USA.

"In sickness or in health" can mean dealing with YOUR sickness properly

Can't make it; in labor.

I feel like the Trump people and Trump himself would feel about as insulted as I'd like them to, but they feel insulted for problematic reasons that I feel uncomfortable perpetuating and reinforcing? That being said, I think NY Parks did a wonderful job of responding by saying that unauthorized erec...

Great if the case-by-case evaluations actually lead to more religious freedom, not so great if it's just a convenient wording to change to avoid legal issues while still being repressive behind closed doors. Tangentially related: I've realized it really disturbs me when the HCO assigns punishment/es...

In fact, I only clean visibly dirty things if they're going to be significantly more difficult to clean after unpacking and living there for a few weeks. Like the insides of cupboards - if they're filthy, it makes more sense to clean them before putting stuff in them. But the shower? Moving the sham...

I think the law school was having issues recently. But yeah, any challenges to accreditation of the university as a whole are probably quite a ways out...but I'd still be more comfortable if BYU wasn't the most recent education on my resume if that were to happen at any point. Losing accreditation w...

Part of the reason I'm glad Mr. Z plans on going to more school after BYU is that I genuinely wonder whether it will be able to stay accredited. So I want him to at least be enrolled in another program before that happens. Since my studies concentrate so heavily on programming, I think I'd be good e...

I got called an apostate at work the other day. It... hurt, surprisingly. I mean, you could make a pretty good case that it's accurate, but given the intent behind it it was still a pretty unpleasant thing to hear. I feel like "apostate" is just a really strong word in LDS culture and I f...

Zed, here's the story of a guy who participated in the beard ban protest a couple of years ago. Fair warning, it's posted in /r/exmormon and there's swearing, but at the time he was mostly just a liberal progressive mormon, not an exmo. An acquaintance from his mission turned him in solely on the b...

I have a ton of mission pictures that would work great for it.

I just have this glorious vision of a bunch of people posting the most innocent pictures with #honorcodeviolation hahaha.

Wikipedia: "One of its main tasks was spying on the population, mainly through a vast network of citizens turned informants, and fighting any opposition by overt and covert measures, including hidden psychological destruction of dissidents"

Yep.

If I had a nickel for every time I thought to myself "surely the HCO wouldn't get someone in trouble for THAT...", followed by being proved wrong, I could afford tuition to go to a different school. Ugh the strategy of shutting down criticism of draconian standards with *more draconian sta...

http://gaymormonguy.blogspot.com/2016/08/the-byu-honor-code-bans-hugs-handshakes.html?m=1 This is majorly pissing me off and completely distracting me from my final paper. With all the controversy about LGBT and the Big 12, tons of people are insisting that LGBT students are held to the exact same s...

A certain reader has done a variety of things that are upsetting the current writers,* basically, and it's coming out in snark. All the editors are on vacation and are planning on dealing with it when they have more time.

*which shall remain under wraps and behind the scenes

Yeah...I feel like guys sometimes have this macho power fantasy about intimidating their sisters' boyfriends and don't realize how that plays into a lot of deeper societal issues for women.

Cognoscente wrote:Let's not begin to claim for ourselves procreation itself.

But only church-sanctioned, never-even-talked-about-until-marriage, safely vanilla procreation. Nothing "unnatural," and no delaying it for "worldly things."