The Division of Training has dismissed a Title IX grievance in opposition to Brigham Younger College which alleged that it discriminates in opposition to college students concerned in same-sex relationships.
At the moment, any sexual relations outdoors “marriage between a person and a girl,” are in opposition to the college honor code, and a March 2020 letter from Elder Paul V. Johnson, Commissioner of the Church Academic System, states that “same-sex romantic habits” will not be permitted.
“Similar-sex romantic habits can’t result in everlasting marriage and is due to this fact not appropriate with the ideas within the honor code,” the letter states.
The Division of Training Workplace for Civil Rights notified Brigham Younger College that the grievance was dismissed on Tuesday, citing spiritual exceptions. Brigham Younger College is a personal establishment sponsored by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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Provo, United States – October 2, 2016: Entrance to campus of Brigham Younger College.
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The Title IX grievance was submitted in March 2020.
On Thursday, the college issued a press release saying that it anticipated the grievance can be dismissed as a result of the division’s Workplace for Civil Rights “has repeatedly acknowledged BYU’s spiritual exemption for Title IX necessities that aren’t according to the spiritual tenets of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.”
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Feb. 17, 2012: A pupil walks previous the doorway of Brigham Younger College in Provo.
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The college additionally famous that the Workplace for Civil Rights mentioned on Jan. 3 that it was exempt from Title IX provisions “that pertain to sexual orientation and gender identification.”
Kevin Worthen, president of Brigham Younger College, wrote in a Nov. 19 letter to the Workplace of Civil Rights that the “intersection of non secular identification and LGBTQ identification—each at an institutional stage and a person stage—is complicated and nuanced.”
FILE – This April 19, 2016, file picture, reveals a welcome signal to Brigham Younger College in Provo, Utah.
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“At BYU, the place our spiritual mission is inextricably certain up within the doctrine of Jesus Christ, we concurrently stand agency in our spiritual beliefs and reiterate our love and respect for every member of our campus group,” Worthen wrote.
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