Archive for March, 2007
Friday, March 30th, 2007
I have had absolutely no time to actually sit down and write out a post on the craziness which was the stop at the University of the Cumberlands in Williamsburg, KY. My co-organizer, Bronwen Tomb, and I could never have expected what we saw there; especially the police's blatant ...
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Wednesday, March 28th, 2007
From the Corbin Times-Tribune:
Group to rally for gay rights
Soulforce Equality Ride to meet with University of the Cumberlands students
By Samantha Swindler / Managing Editor
About 25 riders with the Soulforce Equality Ride will arrive in Williamsburg today to rally for equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, specifically in Christian ...
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Tuesday, March 27th, 2007
From the Courier-Journal:
Activists stage seminary sit-in
They protest Mohler's commentary on gays
By Peter Smith
psmith@courier-journal.com
The Courier-Journal
A dozen gay-rights activists were charged with criminal trespass yesterday after holding a sit-in outside the office of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary President Albert Mohler to protest his recent comments about homosexuality.
[Photo Right: Protesters sang outside ...
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Saturday, March 24th, 2007
In an article from today's Clarion Ledger (Jackson, Mississippi), the City of Clinton Police Department has denied any wrong-doing in the harassment of the Equality Riders.
I've posted much on the subject: On Thursday, March 22, 2007, as we were trying to gather all of our Riders, a police officer with ...
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Friday, March 23rd, 2007
In response to Thursday's occurrences, when the Clinton, MS, police told Equality Riders to get out of their town, the leaders of six major, national LGBT advocacy organizations have written a joint letter to the mayor of the City of Clinton.
The letter is signed by: Kevin Cathcart (Executive Director, Lambda ...
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Friday, March 23rd, 2007
Yesterday was our stop at Mississippi College in Clinton, MS. You'll remember from a few days ago when I posted the story on how the City of Clinton Police Department had attempted to restrict our Constitutionally-protected rights to free speech and peaceful assembly. One of the Police's restrictions was that ...
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Thursday, March 22nd, 2007
Guilford County, home of the City of Greensboro (yup... my 'neck of the woods' for sure), has passed new employment anti-discrimination policies banning discrimination against folks based on sexual orientation.
From EqualityNC:
The Guilford County Board of Commissioners have unanimously approved expanding the County's personnel policy to provide discrimination protections based on ...
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Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
The five Equality Riders and one Baylor University student kept in jail overnight after being arrested on Tuesday were released close to Noon on Wednesday after a judge set bail for about $2000 each (for a simple trespassing charge!!!).
The Riders are on their way as we speak to Clinton, Mississippi. ...
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Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
Here are the news articles from The Baylor Lariat, Baylor University's student newspaper from the last couple of days:
Equality ride preaches open dialogue
March 20, 2007
By CLAIRE ST. AMANT
Staff writer
Twenty-six members from the Soulforce Equality Ride visited campus Monday to dialogue with students and the community about issues of homosexuality and ...
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Tuesday, March 20th, 2007
More videos coming soon!
[tags]Soulforce, Equality Ride, Shawnee, Oklahoma, Oklahoma Baptist University, OBU[/tags]
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