PROVO, Utah (ABC 4 News) - A letter to the school's newspaper is getting the attention of the school's gay community.
And they claim it is causing homophobic attitudes at the BYU campus.
"It was hurtful," said Josh who can't be identified for fear of expulsion. "I was enraged."
For the past few days Josh has been reading the letters to the editor and he says they've been hurtful.
"I understand free speech but not hate speech," he said.
It all started after someone wrote a critical letter condemning the ABC TV series "Modern Family." Part of the series is about two gay men raising a child.
One letter writer wrote: "It appears to present a homosexual, and hence immoral, relationship as acceptable. As Elder Dallin H. Oaks taught us, tolerance does not mean acceptance. We cannot accept immoral behavior."
Another passage in a letter had this comment: "Sexual sins, of which homosexuality is one, are not OK"
And there was this: "We must avoid, at all costs, letting children grow up in a home where horrible sins are modeled as acceptable.
Just as if we wouldn’t want a child to grow up with a prostitute for a mother or a serial killer for a father, we shouldn’t accept a lesbian, gay or transgender parental model for young people."
Hunter Schwartz attends BYU, and says most students didn't like the way the words are contained in the letters.
"I think the problem is not with the opinions that was expressed but the way they were expressed," Schwartz said.
But Josh feels like there is a silver lining to all this.
"I feel like the negative responses found in these letters will help bring awareness to the campus," he said..
