Comments on: 24 Soulforce protesters (including me) arrested at Falwell’s Liberty U.

By: MattHillNC.com | The Q-triad Blog » Blog Archive » Update: Soulforce-Liberty U. arrests and court

Wed, 17 May 2006 04:19:51 +0000

[...] Received an update late on Tuesday evening regarding the upcoming May 18th court appearances in Lynchburg, VA, for those arrested in the Soulforce Equality Ride action at Liberty University back in March. [...]

By: MattHillNC.com | The Q-triad Blog » Blog Archive » Equality Ride makes last stop at West Point

Thu, 27 Apr 2006 14:10:35 +0000

[...] The Equality Ride started in March at Liberty University, a school founded and headed up by the Reverend Jerry Falwell. Twenty-four participants were arrested at Liberty, including me and another Greensboro citizen. [...]

By: Brian

Brian — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 18:10:49 +0000

I am sorry if you feel insulted but christianity makes clear that homosexuality is a sin. I also made it clear that love for another man is fine, lust is not. Lust is not o.k. in any context for that matter.
Pedophilia is rooted in lust not hate, immoral sexual behavior is based in desire, lust and coveting, a sort of gluttany and abuse of mans sexual nature. Lets look at mans sexuality logically for a minute.
Mans sexual nature exists for procreation, any sexual activity that does not have that end as a possibility is futile and goes against natural law, for example anal sex. The anus was designed for one purpose and sex isn’t it. When you fill up at the gas station you don’t put the pump nozzle in the tail pipe do you? No you don’t because thats not where it goes. Homosexuality is not natural behavior, it is a distortion of mans true sexuality. Now I agree with you that people like Mr. Falwell are fueling the fires of discrimination which fosters violence against homosexuals and minorities and that he is setting a bad example for true christianity.
Christ welcomed all people to his fathers table. The Pharisee’s questioned him about eating with sinners, they seeing themselves as the righteous distanced themselves from the theif and the whore or the liar and the murderer and homosexuals. They saw these people as a disease that needed to be quarantined and wiped out but they were wrong. Christ saw them for what they were, people just like you and I, people who had made poor decisions or were confused or a slave of their greed or desires, they were the lost and Christ knew this and he knew that it was his job to reach out to these people not cut them off.
Please don’t get me wrong, alot of christians like myself would think that they are better than you and would condecend you for being a homosexual. I do not, as a matter of fact I have probably sinned alot more than you have, making me worse or lower than you in the eyes of so-called “Christian America” I have no illusions of the amount of wickedness I have commited because of my weaknesses, my past is black with evil and that is why I reach out because I know that if it had not been for the sacrifice of Jesus I would most definately be doomed.
Just out of curiosity what are your views on Christianity or God or religion? What do you believe in? I would really like to know. Brian Terry

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 19:16:34 +0000

I think the major differing views are summed up in the fact that some people, like yourself, believe being gay is a sin, whereas others do not believe it.

I find it kind of insulting and degrading that you compare my love for another man with such acts as murder, pedophilia and theft. There are some major, major, major differences… My love is just that… love. Murder, pedophilia and theft are in no way acts committed out of love for another person. Those things are rooted in hate… the same hate which is used to further violence against gays and other minorities directly because of the prejudice being taught by some people from the pulpit of the Church. People like the Reverend Jerry Falwell misuse their position in the Church to further bigotry and prejudice. He did this forty years ago by discriminating against African-Americans and using Scripture to justify why the races should be seperate. He called the Civil Rights Movement the “civil wrongs movement”. I see and Soulforce sees absolutely no difference between the prejudice Falwell perpetuated 40 years ago and the prejudice he is perpetuating now.

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 18:28:37 +0000

I saw the coverage on MTV and I was motivated to investigate further into this organization and what they stand for.
I am not a homosexual but I have a couple friends that are and they raised the question to me. “If God is love then how can it be wrong to love another man?” My answer was, it’s not wrong to love another man but it is wrong to act on desires to have sexual intercourse with another man just like it is wrong to act on desires to cheat on your wife or steal a car or murder your neighbor or molest a child.
I do not condemn homosexuality any more than I condemn stealing or murder or adultry. Now let me be clear on this, I condemn the SIN not the man or women. We are all equal in the sense that we are all unworthy of Gods love and forgiveness but he gives it anyway and we all have the God given right to seek that love and forgiveness. A gay man has just as much of a right to inherit Gods kingdom as the straight man who cheats on his wife, however they both need to do battle with their sinful desires and fully commit themselves to Gods will. Homosexual desire and intercourse is a sin but it is no greater or no less a sin than any of the other sins. The gay community has every right to seek God and redemption but if it does so promoting homosesexual behavior as being perfectly o.k. with God then it is being hypocritical. We must cast off our fleshly desires in order to pursue a more divine future. I disagree with discrimination of any kind and feel everyone should have the same rights but we all need to be honest with ourselves about what we are really doing. I don’t know where “soulforce” stands on these issues so if you would like to inform me that would be fine. Whatever their position is, my statement here stands. Brian Terry

By: MattHillNC.com » Blog Archive » Photos from Equality Ride MTV News Special

Sat, 25 Mar 2006 22:43:50 +0000

[...] Here are some photos (aka screenshots… images copyright MTV News) from the MTV News Special on the Equality Ride and the events at Liberty University, when 24 activists were arrested (under the request of the Reverend Jerry Falwell). [...]

By: MattHillNC.com » Blog Archive » Equality Ride scapegoated for OK anti-gay action

Sat, 25 Mar 2006 18:55:05 +0000

[...] The Equality Ride’s next stop is on Monday at� Abeline Christian University in Abeline, Texas. According to an article by the ACU Optimist, the Equality Riders are also being welcomed onto the campus, instead of being turned away or arrested like at Liberty, Regent or Oral Roberts Universities. The stop at Abeline will be the seventh stop in the 19-stop tour. [...]

By: MattHillNC.com » Blog Archive » MTV News Equality Ride coverage

MattHillNC.com » Blog Archive » MTV News Equality Ride coverage — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 18:12:09 +0000

[...] MTV News finally got out an article on the Soulforce Equality Ride. They were there with us� on the first� stop at Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University� and they have, like me, been closely following the Soulforce Equality Ride, which should be included in MTV’s upcoming Spring Break special, “MTV News Presents: The Amazing Break”. The MTV News special, according to the MTV website should be shown on the following days: [...]

By: MattHillNC.com » Blog Archive » Equality Ride faces more arrests at Oral Roberts

Mon, 20 Mar 2006 23:54:29 +0000

[...] Seven Riders were arrested when attempting to enter campus. This is the third campus in which Riders have been arrested and the fifth campus on the Equality Ride’s tour across the country. Twenty-four activists were arrested at Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University (Lynchburg, VA) and six at Pat Robertson’s Regent University (Virginia Beach, VA). Lee and Union Universities in Tennessee allowed the Riders onto campus. The tour itself is modeled after the Freedom Rides of the 1960s and seeks to break down religious bigotry and prejudice. While at Lee University, the Equality Ride bus was defaced and later cleaned by Lee students and Riders. [...]

By: Patrick Tutwiler

Patrick Tutwiler — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 19:49:17 +0000

Matt you’re a hero! Listen, when our junta overthrows the SGA next meeting, we’re gonna make you Provisional Governor of the Campus okay? I mean, it’s mostly a figurehead position with no real power, and the junta will still retain ultimate executive authority, but make no mistake, we will take your opinions into consideration before each and every decree. Or you could be a part our our junta if you want, but I figured you probably wouldn’t.