sep 23, 1965 - BYU cannot be Contaminated by Homosexuals [Part 24]

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On September 12, 1962, apostles Spencer Kimball and Mark Peterson and BYU President Ernest Wilkinson agreed on a university policy that "no one will be admitted as a student [to BYU] ... whom we have convincing evidence is a homosexual.” Using the diverse platforms of the Church (including private, personal interviews with bishops and stake presidents), the group of church leaders who supported this idea agreed to share information about individual cases of homosexual members between local leaders (bishops/stake presidents), church administration and BYU administration.

This policy was reiterated in Wilkinson's address to BYU in September 1965 when he stated the following:

“BYU does not intend to admit to our campus any homosexuals. If any of you have this tendency and have not completely abandoned it, may I suggest that you leave the University immediately after this assembly; and if you will be honest enough to let us know the reason, we will voluntarily refund your tuition. We do not want others on this campus to be contaminated by your presence.”
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“I know there is a natural tendency not to report on one’s friends, that in our diseased society there has grown up the false code that one ought not to ‘rat’ on his friends.”

-Ernest W. Wilkinson
President, Brigham Young University “Make Honor Your Standard,” Ernest Wilkinson BYU September 23, 1965

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