This may seem like a cheap shot on my part, but it has an important message...
USA Today reports that police are investigating a suspected gang rape of a teen-age girl at Brigham Young University by football players. The girl was 17 and was in the school sponsored apartment that athletes stay in, alcohol was involved. Later in the story it also mentions several other BYU football players that are suspended:
Football players Marcus Whalen and Breyon Jones were suspended and are facing criminal charges that they assaulted and robbed an acquaintance in April.
An off-campus party involving alcohol and sex in January resulted in one football player being kicked off the team, three being suspended until at least spring 2005 and two players placed on probation.
The point here isn't to claim that the mormon run school is a den of iniquity (although it is a den of false doctrine). The point is that mormons act like they have a superior culture to everyday America (seen in the pride that BYU is listed as the most stone cold sober college in a ranking of party schools). The reality is that despite the commercials, mormons are sinners just like everyone else. They are not especially worthy, despite claiming to be worthy in temple recommend reviews. All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. That includes them. When they wake up to that reality, that they are sinners in need of salvation rather than gods in waiting, they might be able to see the true Gospel for what it is and really understand that grace means unmerited favor.
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