Slog - Comments on Soulforce's Gay "Freedom Riders" Being Arrested, Prosecuted, Sent to Prison in Mississippi http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/soulforces_gay_soulforces_gay_freedom_ri Tell me again, Rev. Hutcherson, how the gay and lesbians civil rights movement, lower case, bears no resemblance whatsoever to the African American Civil Rights Movement, upper case? Sitting in a courtroom and facing possible jail time in Clinton, Miss. on March 22, a group of five activists in their early 20s discovered that they could pay a heavy price for their efforts to advocate for LGBT rights. The students are part of Soulforce’s second Equality Ride, in which young activists trek across the country in buses, stopping at Christian colleges and universities with anti-gay policies and trying to start... Copyright 2008 Fri, 30 Mar 2007 13:45:39 -0800 Fri, 30 Mar 2007 15:49:14 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by the Jack I think you fucked up your headline there, Dan...

]]> the Jack http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/soulforces_gay_soulforces_gay_freedom_ri#c686812 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/soulforces_gay_soulforces_gay_freedom_ri#c686812 Homo Fri, 30 Mar 2007 14:36:55 -0800 Comment by Jeff Who actually went to prison?

]]> Jeff http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/soulforces_gay_soulforces_gay_freedom_ri#c686893 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/soulforces_gay_soulforces_gay_freedom_ri#c686893 Homo Fri, 30 Mar 2007 15:47:49 -0800 Comment by JenK SoulForce is consciously modeled on Ghandi and MLK. At a workshop at St Mark's some years ago, SoulForce founder Mel White talked about when he was jailed for trespassing in Virginia Beach for trying to talk with his former employer Pat Robertson about CBN's anti-gay propaganda. He said one of his first phone calls was from Coretta Scott King, who told him to stay in jail and not take a "if you get out of town we'll release you". White told Mrs King that he'd read Letter from Birmingham Jail.

]]> JenK http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/soulforces_gay_soulforces_gay_freedom_ri#c686897 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/soulforces_gay_soulforces_gay_freedom_ri#c686897 Homo Fri, 30 Mar 2007 15:49:14 -0800