" The historic sites of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints preserve the memory of sacred events and places to ensure our connection with God now and in the future. When visitors authentically experience heritage, their hearts and minds are more receptive to the site’s spiritual message." 

Please share this petition to preserve the McKay Mosaic/Foyer. https://chng.it/MvvvB7sC

Aloha!

We strongly ask for your kokua to write to the First Presidency now!

Send your  concerns to President Russell M. Nelson, Elder Dallin Oak, President Henry Eyring, Jeffrey Holland, and Ronald Rasband now! They need to hear from the grassroots in numbers now!  50 E North Temple Salt Lake City UT 84150 (We would not be surprised if there will be a concerted campaign, as evidenced in their social media tactics, from the BYUH PR gang once this is posted.)

Politely request the First Presidency's attention and investigation into the tearing down of the McKay Mosaic and the McKay Foyer. We're a world-wide church. Many decisions are approved based on trust. We do not know how this project is packaged and delivered to SLC. But Truth is Reason. It makes no sense to chop the McKay Mosaic into pieces and to replace the Foyer with the Aspen Grove Conference Hall motif. ā'u-wē! ā'u-wē!

With all due respect, this past two-year process has been in secrecy with manipulated PR messaging. People only began to hear about this in March, 2023 through verbal bits and pieces. The BYUH website does not match the verbal information provided by the Administration.

 Here are some notes to ponder:

1. Complexity? How hard is it to preserve the McKay Mosaic and the Foyer heritage?There are donors who are willing to donate in anonymity to engineer and preserve this prophetic heritage.
2. Trade-offs? To destroy the only historical structure left on the BYUH campus? To "preserve significant portions" by chopping up the Mosaic into nothingness? To tear down the small iconic Foyer and replace it with an Aspen Grove Conference Hall design?
3. Opportunity Costs? Tearing down BYUH's only iconic mosaic and  depiction of its prophetic heritage will never balance out the negative implicit costs of loss of faith, testimony, and aloha.
4. Build and operate campus? There is no opposition to tearing down most of the McKay Complex, Aloha Center, Auditorium, the natural history center and all the classrooms. There is overwhelmingly desire to preserve what little is left of BYUH's history. The footprint of the McKay Foyer is negligible to the entire plan and campus operation.
5. "Either Political Extreme"? Erasing the McKay Mosaic is not extreme? Why does the BYU-President has to be so racist to publicly promote himself as a "John Kauwe University President at Brigham Young University–Hawaii | Kānaka Maoli | Scientist United States." Which college President advertise their race? Does President Astrid S. Tuminez of Utah Valley University promote herself as a Filipina in Linkedin?
6.  Would McKay Mosaic be protected and preserved if the current BYUH Administration were not so offended by it?  
7. Look at the three chopped parts that were chosen as "significant portions" of the mosaic. Look at the many parts that are missing. It's not political? 

STAY TUNED. Unfortunately, we've obtained more primary source information that raises many concerns about this administration and this process. Please do your part politely and sincerely now. Mahalo!