BYU Center Brandon Davies' College Education in Jeopardy After Suspension from Basketball Team for Premarital Sex

Brigham Young University center Brandon Davies suspended from basketball team for rest of season & college education at the school in jeopardy over premarital sex with girlfriend.

Brigham Young University center Brandon Davies was suspended from the Cougars basketball team because he admitted to having premarital sex with his girlfriend. I thought what two consenting adults did was their own business. I am sure there are some single employees of BYU having premarital sex. According to the Salt Lake Tribune, Davies was suspended for the remainder of the season because he violated the school’s honor code provision that prohibits premarital sex. Are you kidding me? At least the young man had a girlfriend and was not running around having sex with different girls. The rules governing sexual intercourse at colleges and universities such as BYU is patently idiotic and I would not send my children to any such school. Sorry, but they wouldn't have received an apology from me.

Davies, a sophomore from Provo High School, acknowledged his transgression to BYU officials on Monday, according to multiple sources.

After BYU’s stunning 82-64 loss to New Mexico on Wednesday night, Cougars coach Dave Rose addressed Davies’ dismissal for the first time, saying, “I think it was a surprise to everyone.” Asked whether he believes Davies will play basketball for BYU again, Rose said, “yeah, I do.”

On Tuesday, the school owned and operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced Davies had been dismissed from the team but was being allowed to remain in school while his situation was under review by the Honor Code Office. Source

Let me get this straight, the Mormons discriminated against blacks for so long and only accepted them into their churches in the 1970s and they are trying to tell someone they can't have sex? How many college students have gone through their entire four years on a campus and not had sex? Sexual intercourse between tow consenting adults who love each other isn't a mistake. It is time this school took this ridiculous rule out of their policies. As I stated before, I am sure there are some single staffers at BYU having premarital sex. If the truth be told, I'm sure there might be a married staffer or two engaging in adulterous relationships unknown to the university. I would love to know who was the snitch that told on thi9s young man.

Let me put this in a personal context: I went to an all-girls Roman Catholic high school because at the time, it was one of the best in Montego Bay. They preached abstinence, but there were isolated cases of students getting pregnant. What I found amazing was that there was a priest, who I remember only as Father Pegg, going around having sexual relationships with a few girls and he impregnated one girl, who had to withdraw from the school. Well, Father Pegg was a pedophile, but the nuns would never have said it. He died in a terrible car accident shortly thereafter. Moral of the story: If you live in a glass house, don't throw stones. Same thing applies to Brigham Young University. The school rules were strict, but we found ways to break some of the rules. That's what kids do.

BYU is willing to ruin this young man's education just because he had sex with his girlfriend. He didn't break the law. These archaic rules need to be taken off the books. For all these religious-based schools, if they think a lot of the kids aren't having sex, they are bigger fools than I thought. By the way, here's a verse from Mormon Journal of Discourse (shows the mindset and how they felt about blacks):

"Shall I tell you the law of God in regard to the African race? If the white man who belongs to the chosen seed mixes his blood with the seed of Cain, the penalty, under the law of God, is death on the spot. This will always be so." (Journal of Discourses, vol. 10, p. 110) 

UPDATE#1: Brandon Davies girlfriend is reportedly pregnant, which speaks to the old saying, "don't drink and drive."