Senate OK's Defense Bill Without Anti-LGBTQ+ Provisions, Setting Up Fight With House
Fights are likely over individual appropriations bills as well.
July 28, 2023
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Fights are likely over individual appropriations bills as well.
Two weeks into Equality Ride 2--wherein 50 young gay and straight activists are touring the country in two buses with a mission to initiate dialogue at 32 Christian colleges that have policies silencing or excluding LGBT students--participants have been jailed in Texas and threatened with citations in Mississippi.
"Time and again Equality Riders have been told we are affirmed as human beings created in God's image but would not make suitable roommates, teammates, and coworkers. What kind of love can have such distinctions inscribed upon it?"
While one group of Equality Riders received an apology from Dordt College officials in Iowa for antigay graffiti on their bus, another group was subjected to arrest when Soulforce members entered the campus of Notre Dame on Friday.
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.
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.
The Canadian competitor is one of a handful of out high-profile riders.
Over 2,000 cyclists began their trek to help the San Francisco AIDS Foundation and the Los Angeles LGBT Center.
The service, called “Women+ Connect,” is rolling out in the coming months.
The suspect in the incident punched two young men calling them homophobic slurs and punched a woman who tried to intervene.
While the chicken chain with a long history of anti-LGBTQ donations was most popular with students, Rider's administration took a stand against it.
Although both men have a checkered past when it comes to sensitivity, the pair now vows to support diversity.