A word from composer Stephen Schwartz ("Wicked," "Godspell") to all you Mormons out there: Homophobia is bad, bad, bad - but he's not going to punish your student singing groups over it.

Schwartz (pictured) told The Salt Lake Tribune's Peggy Fletcher Stack, via e-mail, that he has no plans to withhold the license of his songs from Utah or LDS-related singing groups.

An ex-Mormon blogger recently launched a drive to get composers to deny their songs to LDS-related groups - because of the Mormon Church's support of California's Prop. 8, the ban on same-sex marriage.

"I have not withdrawn the use of my songs by the BYU Young Ambassadors and do not intend to do so," Schwartz wrote. "They are a student singing group."

Schwartz urged all "fair-minded Mormons to reconsider their position and come to support the right of homosexuals to marry the person they love. … I continue to believe that the most important tenet of any religion is 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.' "

Labels: LDS, politics