Marxist Infiltrated BYU in 1980's
From: [E.E.]
To: <sterlingda@greaterthings.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 8:49 PM
There seems to be little doubt that such a wide variety of LDS people are
"gullible" about many things, things -- which is partly why a long
time ago, I had the hardest time sticking to the Church (seeing all the
contradictions) and dating LDS [gender], who seemed to not care about the
truth. While there are a great many good people inside the Church, a great
number seem to be terribly naive and out of touch with and uninterested in
what is really going on in world politics. [see note
below]
I find it very disconcerting that the majority of BYU faculty when I was
there had a strong pro-left attitude that didn't seem in keeping with the
Church; in my field of pr/journalism, they hired a Christian Science Monitor
editor to get the attitudes moving toward globalism at the school paper, The
Daily Universe. I remember thinking at the time: why would such a
renowned (non-LDS) scholar, as he was, want to come to BYU? In light of what
is really going on, I think it's interesting to think about perhaps not that
he wanted to but was asked to, as have many others, to do some pro-Marxist
work. It is also interesting to think Jeff Holland, former BYU Pres, was
a "Yalie" .... The Russian department head was totally pro-Russia in
a way that really got to me (Gary Browning--he got sent to be a mission
president over there and was almost anti-Baltic in his pro Russian approach --
the Baltics were lumped in with the Russian mission, despite the fact that
they have a terrible fear of and enmity toward Russians who are their
oppressors).
Thanks, [name withheld]
Note added later on Nov. 2, 2000
From: [E.E.]
To: <sterlingda@greaterthings.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 9:15 PM
Subject: Re: permission Re: BYU
With all the pro-left thinking on campus, especially in the political
science and international relations department, I had a hard time dating at
BYU because nobody seemed to care about the true state of the world, and
thought it was great that LDS scholars and others were in high-ranking
organizations and top government positions, without ever questioning whether
those organizations or agencies had truly worthy objectives.
I've found that Americans in general are primarily interested in prosperity
rather than in truth. This seems to hold in and out of the Church and was very
disappointing to me, because I know much of what I had read and studied was
not out of line with the Gospel and on the contrary, the extreme leftist views
they held did not measure up to upholding freedoms, of which the most
important for Latter day Saints has to be freedom of religion.
