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Monson: Big 12 -- and everyone else -- should let BYU believe what it wants to believe

It also has a problem, a problem that has nothing to do with football or sports, in general, a problem that cuts straight to the complicated and sometimes conflicting issues of religious beliefs versus popular social movements, issues of what's right and what's wrong. And that last designation, depending on one's point of view, can fly in completely opposite directions.

BYU, owned and operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, now has groups of people — advocacy groups for LGBT rights — who are asking Big 12 presidents not to invite the school into their company on account of BYU's stance on students and homosexual behavior.