A conservative Baptist school, Baylor University is altering its student code of conduct to be friendlier to the LGBT community, Think Progress reported.

The school's student government voted Thursday to approve removing the phrase "homosexual acts" from the code, the Baylor Lariat reported. It has been replaced with "non-marital consensual deviate sexual intercourse."

The code of sexual misconduct, most recently updated in 2007 included "homosexual acts" alongside violations like "sexual abuse, sexual harassment, sexual assault, incest, adultery and fornication."

A debate forum followed the vote with views for and against the bill. Supporters argued that the language in the amendment was not theological but technical and was meant to condemn any sexual acts out of marriage, regardless of orientation. Removing the selected language was just a way to make the school's environment more caring and accepting.

"We are simply clarifying language here," Kimani Mitchell, senior, said. "In our world we don't always take words semantically. They are taken with a pragmatic view, which is the connotation associated with the view. This word is discriminating. Discrimination contextually and culturally is a bad thing."

Grant Senter, senior, said the rewording of the phrase will show homosexual students they are accounted for and loved on campus.

"This is not just about a technical change," Senter said. "This is about the entire picture of the university and what it means to be a homosexual on campus. Are you protected? Do we care for you? Do we reach out to you with Christ's love? At this point no. What I think this bill does is take a step towards a more caring, Jesus loving community."

Still, some disagreed with the amendment, like senior Stephen Bell, who said he as a person is welcoming to anyone while believing homosexuality is wrong.

"I understand the technical argument that we are not 'technically' excluding homosexuality," said Bell. "But the fact is, Baylor and many students believe that homosexuality is wrong. The conduct code should say that if they are going to have a conduct code at all. The Baylor statement on human sexuality says, in the very first sentence, 'Baylor University welcomes all students into a safe, supportive environment in which to discuss and learn about theoretic issues including those of human sexuality.'"

While sexual violence and other types of misconduct are a problem on many campuses, conservative schools like Baylor ban premarital sex altogether. It is not clear if abstinence policies help or hurt sexual conduct codes, but still more schools are adopting acceptance changes to include LGBT students.