Trigger warning for discussions of sexual assault. Follow-up to the Brandon Davies case: Deadspin has an interesting and disturbing article alleging severe racial disparities in how BYU’s honor code is applied. Authors Luke O’Brien and Darron Smith, a black Mormon and sociology professor who has written extensively on anti-black racism [...]

LDS (Mormon) owned Brigham Young University just dismissed Brandon Davies, a key player on their #3 ranked men’s basketball team, for violating the school’s honor code. Davies was apparently dismissed because he and his girlfriend had premarital sex. Amazingly, a number of otherwise liberal bloggers and mainstream media figures who [...]