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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.
Academic freedom at Brigham Young University (BYU) has been the subject of several controversies, mostly focusing on its religious nature. In 1992, BYU issued a statement limiting academic freedom in certain areas, including language that attacked the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), and language that violates the university's honor code.
[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 ...
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[291] [292] [293] In 2007, BYU changed the honor code to read that stating one's sexual orientation was not an honor code issue. [294] In February 2020, BYU removed "homosexual behavior" from its Honor Code, [295] [296] [297] but a ban on same-sex romantic behavior such as dating, holding hands, and kissing remains in place as of 2023. [279] [298]
BYU has also received attention from sports networks for refusal to play games on Sunday, as well as expelling players due to honor code violations. [ 133 ] The university's teams and individual players have won various awards for their achievements.
[7] [34] The Student Honor department is tasked with the primary mission of promoting the university Honor Code. [35] In 2007, the Student Honor Association was placed under the BYUSA, with the role of Student Honor Association President becoming an official BYUSA Vice President. [35]
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 ...