page_title: Church Educational System Honor Code
section_title: Ban on advocacy and coming out
hierarchical_section_title: Church Educational System Honor Code / Policies on homosexuality / Ban on advocacy and coming out
caption_attribution_description: A gay parody of Brigham Young University's logo;Other information: This parody of the BYU logo juxtaposes a symbol of BYU and its conservative Mormon culture and stances against LGBT rights like same-sex marriage by replacing the homogenous plain white interior fill with the bright and diverse colors of the universally recognized gay pride flag colors. U.S. Code Title 17 Chapter 1 Section 107 gives parodies protection for fair use as a derivative work. According to the US Supreme Court a parody is "the use of some elements of a prior author's composition to create a new one that, at least in part, comments on that author's works", and that commentary function provides some justification for use of the older work (see Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc.). See also the w:derivative work page.
context_page_description: The Church Educational System Honor Code is a set of standards by which students and faculty attending a school owned and operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are required to live. The most widely known university that is part of the Church Educational System that has adopted the honor code is Brigham Young University, located in Provo, Utah. The standards are largely derived from codes of conduct of the LDS Church, and were not put into written form until the 1940s. Since then, they have undergone several changes. The CES Honor Code also applies for students attending BYU's sister schools Brigham Young University–Idaho, Brigham Young University–Hawaii, and LDS Business College.
context_section_description: In the late 1990s a reference to homosexual conduct was added to the code, and in 2001 Associate Dean of Students Lane Fischer over the BYU Honor Code Office stated that it was inappropriate for a BYU student to advocate for the [homosexual] lifestyle by publishing material or participating in public demonstrations as well as advertising ones same-sex preference in any public way. He also required homosexual students facing discipline to refrain from same-sex "dating, holding hands, kissing, romantic touching, showering, clubbing, ets., as well as regular association with homosexual men."
caption: A gay pride parody of the "Y" logo
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