The Soulforce
Equality Ride bus tour hit another bump in the road when
several members were arrested Monday at ultraconservative
Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Okla.
The riders were
reportedly told that if they walked onto university
property, they would be arrested. When approximately seven
attempted to cross through the university's gate, they
were arrested and charged with misdemeanor
trespassing.
The riders,
currently in the middle of their tour of Christian
universities and military colleges in the name of gay and
lesbian equality, targeted Oral Roberts because of the
school's Code of Honor Privilege. The code prohibits
students from engaging in homosexual behavior, putting
it in the same category as other forbidden actions such
as lying, cursing, drinking, and smoking. Oral Roberts does
not enroll openly gay students, and a student found to
be gay could face expulsion.
"Heterosexual people can fall in love on this campus,
date, hold hands," Equality Ride member Rachel
Powell told a local television station.
"Homosexual people can not."
On Thursday the
Soulforce Equality Ride bus was defaced while parked
outside Lee University in Tennessee. (The
Advocate)
