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'TRMATIC WHIPLASH': BYU'S U-TURN ON HOMOSEXUALY A BLOW TO GAY STUNTS
USGA is an anizatn for LGBT Brigham Young Universy stunts and their alli to discs issu relatg to homosexualy and the LDS years ago, some stunts at Mormon church-owned Brigham Young Universy started an rmal LGBTQ club. ”The change after years of BYU refg to allow USGA to meet on mp and clg to approve s Provo school, owned and operated by The Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats, has a strgent Honor Co that forbids “not only sexual relatns between members of the same sex, but all forms of physil timacy that give exprsn to homosexual feelgs. “I started to take a look at who I was and what I loved, and that I was gay.
About 40 dividuals participated the event, which lasted om 8-9 p., a gay BYU senr, told the Daily Universe he was rponsible for planng the rabow lightg of the Y, which he hop was spirg and fortg to LGBT stunts and faculty. ”For Calv Burke, a gay BYU senr, Rabow Day was “a celebratn of love and belongg for stunts like me, who do not often feel like we belong or are loved. Feral vtigators were first alerted to a possible issue at BYU, which is operated by The Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats, after a plat was filed rponse to chang ma to the school’s strict Honor Co sprg the time, the universy had removed a ntroversial sectn om the l that banned “homosexual behavr.
It also refed take any public actn after a profsor lled a gay stunt a term associated wh an, last fall, a top-rankg apostle of the LDS Church me to mp and cricized faculty members and stunts who challenge the fah’s teachgs on same-sex marriage. For stance, if a stunt is openly gay, BYU is permted unr the law to ny him a scholarship. “Technilly, BYU is allowed to discrimate those areas, ” At ’s at qutn wh the new vtigatn, At believ, is whether those exemptns allow BYU to disciple LGBTQ stunts beyond that, based on the fah’s example, he asks: Can the school punish a gay stunt for holdg hands, when that’s not directly related to tn?