 Controversy has grown in since 2014 surrounding the school 's honor code , as evidenced by growing national attention paid by national news media and the American Bar Association . Various LGBT advocacy groups have protested the honor code and criticized it as being anti @-@ gay , and The Princeton Review ranked BYU as the 3rd most LGBT @-@ unfriendly school in the United States . Beginning in 2014 and continuing through 2016 , several students have alleged that when they reported being raped , the school punished them for violating the honor code . Some students report that , having been victimized by a rapist , they are told they are now sinners . The atmosphere further prevents some students from being willing to tell the police of the crimes , a situation that local police have publicly deplored . 
