A BYU professor says that the school declined to give her a reason for why she was fired. In Utah, which is an employment-at-will state, that’s legal. But Sue Bergin suspects she knows the reason anyway: her LGBTQ advocacy.
Mormons Building BridgesIn a Facebook post announcing her firing from BYU, Bergin said she is “clearly an advocate” in her private life. But, she noted, she “only rarely said things in the classroom that reflect my advocacy.” She’s surprised that the decision came now.
Sometimes students would ask her how she felt. And she’d tell them: “I respectfully disagree with the church position on marriage equality. And I wrestle and struggle with that.”Bergin wonders now if maybe that prompted someone to file a complaint against her.When asked about Bergin’s termination, Brigham Young University spokesperson Carri Jenkins said the school cannot comment “on specific reasons for renewal or nonrenewal of adjunct faculty contracts.
Most of the time, though, if an adjunct is let go, it’s because a university faces budget cuts or if the professor didn’t perform well, Austin said. Neither of those seems to apply to Bergin, especially as the school is financed by the LDS Church.
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