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Stances towards the mutability of homosexuality by church leaders have softened over the years. [12] In the 1960s and 1970s Church leaders taught that homosexuality was a curable disease and they encouraged self-help attempts by homosexual members to change their sexual orientation and cultivate heterosexual feelings.
This resulted in 72 students suspected of homosexual activity reported to the Standards Office (now called the Honor Code Office) within the first year of the new policy, and many expulsions and suspensions. Security files were kept on suspected gay students and student spying was encouraged. [16]: 154 [15]: 207–217
An overriding commitment to fiscal responsibility, [58] even if it entails means-testing of social programs. [74] [75] An overriding commitment to reforming public education, whether by equalizing spending on school districts, [76] offering school choice, [77] hiring better teachers, [78] or empowering the principals and teachers we have now. [79]