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Every year or so there\u2019s some post or article about BYU performing boundary maintenance, and another one\u00a0just dropped<\/a>. I’ve <\/span>already<\/span><\/a> said most<\/a> of <\/span>what I have to say about this issue elsewhere, but I just wanted to point out that if you applied for a US sociology faculty position and it was discovered that you, say, were against gay marriage, or were even a vocal pro-life proponent, even if it had nothing to do with your research (not that that should matter), it would have significant implications for your employability, and people who claim otherwise are either completely clueless or insincere. This is symptomatic of a broader dynamic operating in the background; d<\/span>iversity statements, for example, a standard piece of employment applications, are thinly veiled (at best, sometimes not even that) ideological litmus tests about your position on affirmative action. <\/span><\/p>\n So you can\u2019t have your cake and eat it too. BYU is at least open about having hiring filters based on something besides objective qualifications, and that’s their right, even though I\u2019m sure they\u2019re a juicy target as one of the last institutions left that purportedly smell like the old-timey stereotype of the evil archconservative educational institution repressing liberating free thought and inquiry. I\u2019m not going to pivot here to a discussion about cancel culture, but suffice it to say things are more complicated than the caricature, and the far-left <\/span>doesn\u2019t have a whole lot of moral authority<\/span><\/a> to lecture conservative religious institutions about ideological litmus tests in higher education.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Every year or so there\u2019s some post or article about BYU performing boundary maintenance, and another one\u00a0just dropped. I’ve already said most of what I have to say about this issue elsewhere, but I just wanted to point out that if you applied for a US sociology faculty position and it was discovered that you, say, were against gay marriage, or were even a vocal pro-life proponent, even if it had nothing to do with your research (not that that should matter), it would have significant implications for your employability, and people who claim otherwise are either completely clueless or insincere. This is symptomatic of a broader dynamic operating in the background; diversity statements, for example, a standard piece of employment applications, are thinly veiled (at best, sometimes not even that) ideological litmus tests about your position on affirmative action. So you can\u2019t have your cake and eat it too. BYU is at least open about having hiring filters based on something besides objective qualifications, and that’s their right, even though I\u2019m sure they\u2019re a juicy target as one of the last institutions left that purportedly smell like the old-timey stereotype of the evil archconservative educational institution repressing liberating free […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10403,"featured_media":48822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3024],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-byu"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/byu_campus-2024.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10403"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48821"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48830,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48821\/revisions\/48830"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}