A stop at the
notoriously antigay university in Tulsa, Okla., results in
a few arrests and some off-campus dialogue. But Oral Roberts
did such a thorough job of closing itself off, this
rider fears some local folks didn't even get a
chance to make up their own minds.
Five Soulforce
activists were cited for trespassing and escorted off
the campus at Brigham Young University Monday after
demonstrating against the Mormon Church's antigay
policies as part of the Equality Ride.
Hundreds of protestors filled the school's student center late Monday, claiming that "the university is showing an endorsement of restricting the rights of LGBTQIA+ people."
The Soulforce Q
Equality Ride, a group of young LGBT activists
headed to Christian campuses nationwide on a mission to open
a dialogue about antigay school policies, encountered
roadblocks during their first day on the tour.
U.S. right-wing activist Peter LaBarbera and Canadian Bill Whatcott were arrested after refusing to leave the University of Regina campus, where they were passing out antigay literature.
Another student
shot at a Northern Illinois University lecture hall has
died, raising the toll to seven, including the gunman, who
had graduated from the school and had been considered
a good student, officials said Friday. The shooting
was the latest in a spate of attacks in U.S. schools
and universities, including the shooting of a
gender-nonconforming student at an Oxnard, Calif.,
junior high school who has since been declared
brain-dead; a 17-year-old accused of shooting and critically
wounding a fellow student Monday during a high school gym
class in Memphis, Tenn.; and a woman who shot two
fellow students to death before committing suicide at
Louisiana Technical College in Baton Rouge late last
week.
