In the LDS world, there are few things more debated than if caffeine is against the Word of Wisdom or not. Oh sure, the church has never issued a statement saying it's forbidden-but often times people try to out-Mormon one another by boasting that they don't drink Coke or Pepsi. The old saying, "Don't try to be more Catholic than the Pope." can be twisted into "Don't try to be more LDS than the Prophet."
So BYU will start serving soda at football games and in dining halls. You can read the tawdry and juicy story here.
This is not a slippery slope to BYU hosting keg parties and handing out Playboy magazines in their fraternities, so people getting upset about this seriously need to take a deep breath. This is not the first step into BYU becoming "progressive" either. Only a truly fundamentalist LDS could see this as the first step towards anarchy.
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