Affirmation: Gay & Lesbian Mormons

The "Y"--Is it a guy with his arms stretched out to heaven, or is it an arrow pointing straight down to hell?

10 Top Reasons to Stop Giving Your Money to Brigham Young University

By Jason Clark
October, 2004

BYU's horrific history of forcing gay students to undergo electroshock/aversion therapy.
Merrill J. Bateman's appalling claim that he has not "been able to verify" BYU's history of electroshock/aversions therapies.
BYU's long and infamous history of spying on and entrapping gay students.
BYU's recent lock-up of gay-related books.
BYU's current policies designed to harass, discipline, suspend, and ultimately expel any student, professor, or employee suspected of being gay or lesbian.
BYU's recent harassment and disciplining of gay students for kissing, holding hands, or accepting gifts from same-sex friends, thus showing a double standard.
BYU's funding, supporting, and condoning of the anti-gay activities carried out by Richard G. Wilkins, Lynn Wardle, and others at the infamous World Family Policy Center.
BYU's harassment or dismissal of the following professors: Thomas Matthews (gay), Jeffrey Nielsen (spoke out for marriage equality), D. Michael Quinn (historian), Cecilia Konchar Farr (feminist), David Knowlton (anthropologist), Gail Turley Houston (feminist), Brian Evanson (novelist).
BYU's current promotion of spying through the so-called "Honor Code" system.
BYU's annual sponsoring of the Families under Fire conference, where so-called "experts" discuss homosexuality as an addiction.

Here's a list of organizations which, unlike BYU, will use your money to help protect your rights and the lives of gays and lesbians:

Affirmation: Gay and Lesbian Mormons

Equality Utah

Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD)

GLBT Community Center of Utah

GLSEN: The Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network

Human Rights Campaign

Lambda Legal

National Center for Lesbian Rights

National Youth Advocacy Coalition

National Gay and Lesbian Task Force

PFLAG