'Trmatic whiplash': BYU's U-turn on homosexualy a blow to gay stunts

Contents:

• A WALK HIS SHO: A BYU PROFSOR’S LIFE AS A GAY LATTER-DAY SAT
• 'TRMATIC WHIPLASH': BYU'S U-TURN ON HOMOSEXUALY A BLOW TO GAY STUNTS
• BYU PROFSOR UNR FIRE FOR LABELG GAY STUNT AN ANTI-CHRIST
• OPENLY GAY MORMON TGHT RELIGN CLASS THIS SUMMER AT BYU
• BYU PROFSOR SAYS SCHOOL’S GAY HONOR CO CHANGE IS 'A BLSG,’ PECIALLY FOR THOSE WHO DON’T LIKE

A WALK HIS SHO: A BYU PROFSOR’S LIFE AS A GAY LATTER-DAY SAT

If Ben is gog to do somethg, he is gog to do 100% to the end, ” Buzz a BYU Honor Co Admistrator, Ben tak this same 100% attu livg his life as a gay, active member of The Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats. ”Wrg a Book: ‘A Walk My Sho’Ben shar his story of beg both gay and an active Latter-day Sat his new book, “A Walk In My Sho: Qutns I’m Often Asked as a Gay Latter-day Sat.

“In 2011, I fally admted to myself that I was gay.

'TRMATIC WHIPLASH': BYU'S U-TURN ON HOMOSEXUALY A BLOW TO GAY STUNTS

Ultimately, though, the “mental trma of tryg to balance beg employed at BYU wh beg gay took s toll. And was too challengg to functn at the flagship Latter-day Sat school as an out gay he kept his head down and stayed the closet. “I wasn’t dog anythg that would jeopardize my job, ” he said, “but I felt burned by beg gay at a school that would never accept me.

5, grew up the 1960s and ‘70s, when the church and much of society believed that beg gay was a choice — and the young Latter-day Sat simply “chose” not to be earned his unrgraduate gree geography om Utah State Universy, his master’s om BYU and a doctorate om the Universy of Chigo.

BYU PROFSOR UNR FIRE FOR LABELG GAY STUNT AN ANTI-CHRIST

“I jt thought, ‘I am not gog to be gay, ’” he relled. Lookg back, though, he said, “the signs of his homosexualy were all there.

“I saw the joy of the gay stunts when they first thought that they would be able to date like heterosexual stunts, ” he said, “and then when that was removed weeks later, how flated they were.

OPENLY GAY MORMON TGHT RELIGN CLASS THIS SUMMER AT BYU

”He began to wre to gay stunts to say, “I support you.

BYU PROFSOR SAYS SCHOOL’S GAY HONOR CO CHANGE IS 'A BLSG,’ PECIALLY FOR THOSE WHO DON’T LIKE

I am gay, too, ” offerg to help them “navigate beg the church. ”Emmett uld reply whout fear: “I’m gay. 19 to remove a clse prohibg "all forms of physil timacy that give exprsn to homosexual feelgs.

While stunts have been allowed to openly intify as gay sce 2007, they have long been banned om beg same-sex relatnships.

Current and former BYU stunts told NBC News that they had spoken to universy admistrators after the was updated and nfirmed that as long as gay upl also followed the le of chasty and didn't have sex outsi a heterosexual marriage, they uld openly date and show a Q&A wh the director of the Honor Co Office, Kev Utt, which was published Wednday on the school's webse, Utt emphasized that "any same-sex romantic behavr is a vlatn of the prcipl of the Honor Co" and was still prohibed. If I had stayed at BYU, I would have been one of those statistics, " she still attends church to serve as a role mol for other young gay Mormons.