The university restricts LGBTQ students from dating or showing signs of affection toward members of the same sex.
Brigham Young University removed pamphlets with off-campus resources for LGBTQ students from welcome bags for incoming freshman in late August.
The pamphlets with resource information for LGBTQ students were removed from welcome bags for new students.Tenney says RaYnbow Collective created the pamphlets because she — who identifies as gay — remembers the loneliness she felt as a freshman at the university, which is owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. At the university in Provo, Utah, located about 45 miles southeast from Salt Lake City,from dating or showing signs of affection toward members of the same sex.
RaYnbow Collective worked with Daily Universe, BYU’s student newspaper which creates the welcome bags, to submit the pamphlets. Tenney said she paid the $200 fee, signed a contract with the Daily Universe and dropped off 5,000 pamphlets on Aug. 12. The pamphlets, she said, were “very vanilla, very inline with church teachings.”
After reaching out to various departments at BYU to find out who was giving the direction to remove the bags, Tenney said she was told by the Office of Student Life that the items went against the church and that they made the decision to remove them.on Friday, Sept. 1:
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