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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.