Minority in the Gospel

I've moved to this campus from Lexington, MA, and I have concluded that Lexington High School and BYU are polar opposites. In many ways this has been a great change for me, the standards that everyone follows provides a much better atmosphere for feeling the spirit and learning. However, one thing I do sometimes miss about Lexington is that fact that I am a religious minority over there. My school has 2000 students and 3 of them are LDS. Many people think that it would be a challenge to be such a small minority and it was. I was constantly challenged on several of the churches views, many were easy to dismiss as myths or past views. However, the majority of my school disagreed on the churches stance on gay marriage and abortion. I believe that it strengthened my testimony to stand up to the arguments and try as best I could to defend the churches policies. During prop 8 I was bombarded with outraged people asking "why do Mormons hate gays" this gave me an opportunity to explain that we would never use our religion to justify hatred. Being a minority in the gospel was a very strengthening experience for me and something I will miss. I am not saying that BYU should change at all I'm simply commenting on something that I'll miss about my home town.