‘Mormon Land’: College administrator examines BYU’s Honor Code reversal on LGBTQ issues

Back in mid-February, Brigham Young University set off shock waves when it quietly removed from its Honor Code the section forbidding “homosexual behavior.”Many students believed — and had been told by school officials — that the shift meant the prohibition against such actions as same-sex hand-holding, kissing and dating was no longer in place. The LGBTQ community and its allies celebrated.Two weeks later, however, the Church Educational System, which oversees all BYU ca