This ‘Huge Leftist’ Teaches At A Mormon University. She Put Up A Facebook Post Supporting Homosexuality. She Was Fired.

A self-described “huge leftist” teacher says she has been informed by Brigham Young University-Idaho that she will not be hired back as an adjunct instructor next year because of an announcement she posted on Facebook condemning the stance of the Mormon Church on homosexuality and transgenderism.

Ruthie Robertson, 22, is a Mormon who was teaching as an adjunct instructor at BYU-Idaho, a private university owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (LDS). In honor of LGBT Pride Month, Robertson decided to post a lengthy “official announcement and declaration” of solidarity with the LGBT community on Facebook (full text below). The sentiments expressed in the post stand in direct opposition to the views of the church and the school’s Honor Code, which forbids “homosexual behavior.”