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Brent D. Beal

Brent D. Beal is an associate professor of management in the College of Business and Technology at the University of Texas at Tyler.  He enjoys debating religious and political issues, reading and writing short stories, playing Scrabble, and hanging out with his wife and their three kids.

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Religion Dispatches
I have some experience with Boyd K. Packer. I attended a BYU devotional in the early ’90s where he spoke at length about how homosexuality was “unnatural.” I was disturbed by Elder Packer’s ignorance on this issue twenty years ago—and I was disturbed by his ignorance on the same topic on Sunday morning.
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