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'TRMATIC WHIPLASH': BYU'S U-TURN ON HOMOSEXUALY A BLOW TO GAY STUNTS
”At issue is whether BYU, as a private universy sponsored by the Church of J Christ, n mata s honor policy banng what terms same-sex romantic behavr, om holdg hands to 2020, the school removed a sectn tled homosexual behavr om s honor when a sgle standard for all church schools was created nsistent wh an update to the church’s General Handbook. The lawsu and the OCR vtigatn are part of a larger picture regardg the church and s beliefs and the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer muny si and outsi of the church, which matas “that marriage between a man and a woman is ordaed of God and that the fay is central to the Creator’s plan for the eternal sty of his children. 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.
"The handbook allows gay men to serve senr church rol, but ultimately asks LGBTQ members to rema chaste, emphasizg that sex mt be rerved for heterosexual BYU still asks stunts to "enurage" others to ply wh the school's Honor Co, "enurage is not synonymo wh 'turn someone , '" Utt said his Q&A on the school's webse. From the 13, 451 stunts surveyed, 8% intified as beg gay or lbian, bisexual or of another sexual orientatn this sample don’t speak for the entire stunt populatn of more than 36, 000, may provi a better ia of the size of the LGBTQ muny at ’s current Honor Co policy regardg LGBTQ stunts stat “any same-sex romantic behavr is a vlatn of the prcipl of the Honor Co. “It’s like you have this weird distctn rather than jt beg a human who happens to be gay.