{"id":11379,"date":"2019-11-13T16:56:42","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T21:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=11379"},"modified":"2019-11-13T17:03:30","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T22:03:30","slug":"anti-lgbtq-job-advertisement-pulled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=11379","title":{"rendered":"Anti-LGBTQ job advertisement pulled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is interesting: Responding to member pressure, the American Geophysical Union and the Geological Society of America have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/aponline\/2019\/11\/11\/us\/ap-us-byu-honor-code-job-postings.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cancelled publication<\/a> on their Web sites of a job advertisement from Brigham Young University.  The reason is that BYU has an honor code which prohibits same-sex relationships.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Two well-known scientific groups have dropped job postings from their websites from Brigham Young University because of the school&#8217;s LGBTQ policies, igniting a debate on whether research organizations should take a stance on social issues.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington-based American Geophysical Union and the Colorado-based Geological Society of America took down the ads amid mounting pressure from members, the Salt Lake Tribune reported Monday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I admit it: Since my first degree is in Geological Engineering, I felt a thrill of pride that geologists stood-up for science.<\/p>\n<p>The simple, settled, incontestable fact is that the many components of sexuality are hard-coded before birth, and <i>PHOOEY!<\/i> on that ridiculous old book and its carrying-on about sin-sin-sin.  If BYU refuses to acknowledge the settled fact, then their job advertisement has no more dignity than a job advertisement for Hogwarts and should be treated with the same disdain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is interesting: Responding to member pressure, the American Geophysical Union and the Geological Society of America have cancelled publication on their Web sites of a job advertisement from Brigham Young University. The reason is that BYU has an honor &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=11379\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11379"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11379"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11382,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11379\/revisions\/11382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}