When I was 16 I picked up a BYU college student/return missionary who was rather hot. He had no place to go. I had no place to go. But my father owned a chunk of farmland along Utah Lake. He got in my car. We drove to my dad's chunk of farmland, driving down the right-of-way road and parked on a bluff on my dad's property with a nice view of the lake. We were going at it like minks on a blanket in the farm shed when five Provo policemen showed up. We were completely naked engaged in a hot and heavy 69 session. After they made the usual "faggot" jokes and belittled us, they made us get dressed, handcuffed us and drove us to the Provo Police Station. After booking us for trespassing and lewd public behavior I was interrogated first. The cop asked "Do you know whose property you were trespassing on?" I answered, "Yeah, my father's." An hour later they begrudgingly let us go, despite catching us engaged in "an illegal sex act." Their first mistake was having entered private property without a warrant. The second mistake was arresting someone who had every right to occupy the property. Their third mistake was "breaking in" to a private, locked building and destroying property (the door lock).
Years later when I applied for a Realtor's license in Ewetaw I had to get a police record report to submit with my application. There wasn't anything on record of me having done anything -- ever. However, the BYU student who I had picked up (he was 19, muscled blonde gymnast) killed himself a year after that incident. Seems he was from some sort of "prominent" mormon banking family in Las Vegas and they did their usual "You have sinned against god. You're going to Hell!" bull shit, burdening him with so much guilt that he couldn't deal with it. The reason the Provo City Police followed us out of the city and into the county (which was illegal) was because the police had been alerted by BYU Honor Code shit heads that the kid "might be gay, so keep and eye on his activities."
They never formally arrested either of us. After all, they could have nailed him for having sex with a minor, but they didn't. However, I'm certain the mormon witch hunt against gays, which is still in full force at BYU, caught wind of the incident and was directly involved in his depression and sense of guilt and can be held responsible for the tragedy of him killing himself. Sadly he was not the first gay student or return missionary made to feel so ashamed that he or she thought the only way out was suicide. And this still happens with uneccessary regularity with young people attending BYU.
If any young gay men or women who read this are attending BYU and having problems, feel free to PM me. There's no reason anyone should be subjected to the shit and lies and mental torture directed at gays "discovered" attending that pathetic excuse of a "university." They still believe gay sexuality can be "cured" by negative response behavior techniques (electric shocks when viewing gay porn - no electric shocks when viewing heterosexual erotica). Ironically, it's widely recognized that BYU has the largest collection of pornographic materials in the State -- which are illegal. I can direct you to gay social workers and therapists in Salt Lake City who can help you break free of all that crap, help you find legal representation, and help you transfer to a real university more concerned with your education and success at becoming what ever you want to achieve rather than castigate you for your "imorality." You'd think after 50 years the sweet spirits would be more enlightened, but they are not. They lie.
