Its probably best to separate religious intolerance from an aversion to discriminatory practices. They are two separate motivating factors, each possibly could have been the cause of our problem. Point being, there is a genuine objection out there to byu's policy on gay students vs. its policy on straight students.

BYUs policy is this:

straight
Its okay to be straight
You can hold hands and publicly express appropriate levels of affection

gay
its okay to be gay
But you cannot hold hands and publicly express appropriate levels of affection

A policy that many current (non religiously intolerant) critics would be totally be cool with is if the policy for gays just matched the policy for straights.

They are even fine with the rest of the code, prohibiting all sexual interactions.