Arizona @ BYU
SALT LAKE CITY — It was no surprise on Monday to see BYU end up here, in this place, where sports meet the politics of sexual identity. The issue isn’t about the university’s worthiness to join the Big 12. It’s not even about the theory that BYU could be left out because of a “compromise” between the presidents at Oklahoma and Texas.
Now it’s a matter of whether the Big 12 wants to deal with the political football called BYU, and which claim the conference wants to address: potential discrimination against sexual identity and gender identity or discrimination against deeply held religious belief.