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Title: US students roadtrip to anti-gay colleges
Post by: LostInTime on February 23, 2007, 09:31:57 AM
Post by: LostInTime on February 23, 2007, 09:31:57 AM
Link (http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-3787.html)
The eight-week Soulforce Equality Ride will bring them to 32 Christian colleges with policies that silence or exclude lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) students.
Their mission: to open a dialogue about the painful consequences of discrimination and the religion-based prejudice that sustains it.
"We come in pursuit of greater understanding," Haven Herrin, co-director of Soulforce Q, a youth-led movement within the national LGBT social justice group Soulforce, said.
The eight-week Soulforce Equality Ride will bring them to 32 Christian colleges with policies that silence or exclude lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) students.
Their mission: to open a dialogue about the painful consequences of discrimination and the religion-based prejudice that sustains it.
"We come in pursuit of greater understanding," Haven Herrin, co-director of Soulforce Q, a youth-led movement within the national LGBT social justice group Soulforce, said.