BYU pays a reasonable honorarium (about $1.5k, if I recall) to folks they bring in for seminars. That money came from the University not the faculty with whom PZ claims to be friendly. He should return the money and the cost of his travel and meals as a sign of solidaririty with the LGBTQ community at BYU.
PZ Stabs BYU in the Back
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^ alternative interpretation: BYU is a more attractive dept to LDS faculty than you think.
Definitely this. Check out the BYUs in Idaho and Hawaii. Some faculty from very good PhD programs in many departments at regionally-ok-ranked universities. (To be fair, there are a number of faculty from very mediocre PhD programs that probably only landed a TT job because of Mormonism.) Something something about doing the Lord's work, something something about raising your kids in a Mormon community, something something about fitting in with the community you live in instead of being that weird Mormon professor. Most observant Mormons would probably prefer BYU over anywhere else.
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^^ two examples of people who actively sought BYU over other options. Again, BYU is attractive to many LDS faculty.
But they also interviewed and didn’t get jobs at better depts. and they had terrific CVs on the market. Does this reflect an anti-Mormon bias at top R1s? One would imagine if they were offered jobs at top 25 R1s they would have accepted
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Is this irony lost on no one?
BYU is a diverse place in the academia. POMETH could be held at a CHYMPS factory any year. BYU, by virtue of representing a minority religious group and not being a Top R1, is a diverse choice.A minority religious group that would do well to remember the violent persecution its forebears suffered over unusual, some would say shocking, marital and family practices. There's irony for you.
Then again, maybe since they were forced in the 1890s to abandon their most defining practices, they figure others should be forced to conform to WASP standards also.