WACO, Texas — Baylor University’s student body president has vetoed a resolution to drop a ban on homosexuality from the university’s code of conduct.
Baylor’s Student Senate voted in late October to drop “homosexual acts” from the Waco, Texas, university’s sexual misconduct code and substitute the phrase “nonmarital consensual deviate sexual intercourse.”
Trenton Garza, the senate member who sponsored the resolution, said the current policy is unfair because it allows sexual expression between heterosexual couples that is prohibited for gays.
Student body president Wesley Hodges said he exercised his veto because the university’s board of regents likely would not have granted final approval for the change, and because the full student body did not get a chance to weigh in on the topic.
On Oct. 31 the Student Senate came up short of a needed two-thirds vote to override the veto.
Controversy over Baylor’s sexual misconduct policy sparked controversy in March when former women’s basketball star Brittney Griner told ESPN that Kim Mulkey, her college head coach, urged players not to be open publicly about their sexuality.
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