Seems odd

Does anyone else find it odd that John Dehlin has been excommunicated in part for his “statements that the Book of Mormon and the Book of Abraham are fraudulent and works of fiction,” while a major institute at BYU is, at the very least, giving cover to legitimizing precisely this idea? 

It seems to me so patently obvious that if the Book of Mormon is fiction, it is fraud.  And if it is fraud, then the founding claims of the church are bogus.  I’m not sure why this is such a hard concept for some liberal Mormons to grasp.