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[207] [208] [209] The American Bar Association rejects the complaint after BYU made changes to its Honor Code. [210] February – BYU student Harry Fisher comes out on Facebook in 2015. About two months later, after experiences of hearing anti-gay rhetoric from individuals around him, and after instances of having to leave his BYU singles ward ...
The apostle Dallin Oaks has been an influential figure in church interactions with homosexual people, instituting a system of surveillance to identify and expel or attempt to "cure" homosexual students as president of BYU in the 1970s, and doing numerous video interviews and articles on the topic in the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s.
2007 – Shortly after the Soul Force demonstration, [140] the BYU Board of Trustees, under the direction of First Presidency member Thomas S. Monson, revises the BYU Honor Code in April to clarify that "one's stated same-gender attraction is not an Honor Code issue" while continuing to ban "all forms of physical intimacy that give expression ...
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The Honor Code received national attention in March 2011 when the university dismissed BYU basketball player Brandon Davies from the team for violating the code, [129] [130] reportedly by having premarital sex, [131] the same day the college basketball rankings came out listing BYU as the #3 team in the nation.
[294] [295] [296] In 2007, BYU changed the honor code to read that stating one's sexual orientation was not an honor code issue. [297] In February 2020, BYU removed "homosexual behavior" from its Honor Code, [ 298 ] [ 299 ] [ 300 ] but a ban on same-sex romantic behavior such as dating, holding hands, and kissing remains in place as of 2023.
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