BYU profsor unr fire for labelg gay stunt an anti-Christ - Queerty

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

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“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.

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

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. “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.

OPENLY GAY MORMON TGHT RELIGN CLASS THIS SUMMER AT BYU

“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.

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

”He began to wre to gay stunts to say, “I support you. I am gay, too, ” offerg to help them “navigate beg the church. ”Emmett uld reply whout fear: “I’m gay.