The LDS Church has standardized belief and behavior expectations for students at one of its four schools — Brigham Young University Provo, BYU Idaho, BYU Hawaii and Ensign college. It includes a question about whether students 'support or promote any teachings, practices, or doctrine contrary to those [of the church]?'
Same-sex “romantic behavior” remains off-limits, and students face a newly prescribed set of questions from their bishops.
For decades, students have had to secure an “ecclesiastical endorsement” signed by their bishop, but those men did not have a prescribed set of questions to ask. Going forward, they will have such a list,The new list asks, for instance, whether the student is “striving” to believe and follow the faith’s behavioral expectations of premarital chastity, paying tithing, and avoiding coffee, tea, alcohol, tobacco and illegal drugs.
is a good guideline,” it states, even for students who do not wear such underclothing. Sleeveless dresses or shirts would not work under this standard.for men, although some faculty and students have been pushing for that ban to end.
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