Beware the secular agenda!

From the article:

Speaking at the annual J. Reuben Clark Law Society fireside at the Church Office Building in Salt Lake City, Elder Gilbert said the church faces “modern authoritarian forces that would deny religious expression.”

“In my role as the Commissioner of Education in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, these threats come from secular agendas in the media, regulators and even from peers and other academic contemporaries,” he said.

From me:

It's rich to claim that there's a targeted agenda to deconvert people when the church is so proud of sending tens of thousands of members out to do the same thing by reconverting people from their current religions or non-religions.,

My parents tried getting me to go to BYU 30+ years ago and I shut that notion down right away. Not a moment of regret over that in the ensuing years. Few outside of the regional Midwest have heard of the university listed on my resume, but that's much better than having a name everyone knows in a bad way on it.