LEGACY BRIEF: Legacy Defends Religious Liberty for Prospective LDS Missionary

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Recently, Legacy received a plea for help from Josh Myler, a freshman at the City University of New York’s (CUNY’s) Honors College. Josh planned to serve a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at the age of nineteen, the age at which LDS men are expected to go. Before he enrolled, he carefully quizzed the CUNY administration to find out whether he would be allowed to leave college for two years to serve his mission, and then re-enroll. The administration assured him that this would be fine. Josh enrolled and duly sought the necessary leave of absence to serve his mission, but his request was denied, despite the fact that other students had been granted similar leaves. CUNY’s excuse was in part that (in their judgment) serving a mission at the age of 19 is not a religious requirement. Josh could go when he turned twenty-two instead."