BYU doesn't have to betray or deny the fundamental doctrinal positions of its owner and operator, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, to make the adjustments, the same way Notre Dame, the Catholic Church's flagship school, and Baylor, a prominent Baptist university, have made them.
There are some ecclesiastical gymnastics required with those other schools, whose sponsoring religions essentially dictate that gay and lesbian relationships should remain non-sexual in nature. And, yet, they find room, to a certain extent, to embrace LGBT individuals, to make them feel accepted and safe, regardless of what the churches' dug-in doctrinal positions are. That embrace may not be as broad and warm as some wish it were, but it reaches far enough for those schools to be in league with other universities with just enough impunity.
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