Thursday, May 1, 2014

BYU Survey Omits "Gay" Option for Sexual Preference


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by Brig Bagley

1 May 2014

Question #8 has since been revised to "Do you experience same-sex attraction? Yes, no, or other." But the fact still remains that even after backlash, Church leaders fail to give members an option to identify as gay, lesbian, or otherwise. Yes, it does say Other, but that just plain "homosexual" was not initially included as an explicit option means the survey creators don't want to acknowledge the existence of gay people. 

The survey is targeted at Millennial generation students attending BYU, likely in response to the enormously large support of LGBT rights among this age group. Despite MormonsAndGays.com, gay is still not an option for Mormons. And the BYU policies and church policies for acting on homosexual behavior have also not changed: 


"Brigham Young University will respond to homosexual behavior rather than to feelings or attraction and welcomes as full members of the university community all whose behavior meets university standards. Members of the university community can remain in good Honor Code standing if they conduct their lives in a manner consistent with gospel principles and the Honor Code.
One's stated same-gender attraction is not an Honor Code issue. However, the Honor Code requires all members of the university community to manifest a strict commitment to the law of chastity. Homosexual behavior is inappropriate and violates the Honor Code. Homosexual behavior includes not only sexual relations between members of the same sex, but all forms of physical intimacy that give expression to homosexual feelings."


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