Soulforce Expresses Jubilation and Hope for the Future Soulforce Press Release: June 26, 2003For Immediate ReleaseContact: Laura Montgomery RuttCell 717-278-0592 (Lynchburg, VA) – Leaders of Soulforce today express jubilation at the decision by the United States Supreme Court in Lawrence v Texas overturning Texas’s sodomy law. Until today, it had been illegal in 13 states […]
Archives for June 2003
Soulforce Responds to the Report from the Southern Baptist Convention’s Task Force on Ministry to Homosexuals
June 25, 2003 On June 17, 2003, while Soulforce was vigiling in the Phoenix heat outside the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual meeting, a report was released by the Southern Baptist Convention’s Task Force on Ministry to Homosexuals. The task force was formed in response to a motion at the 2001 SBC annual meeting, requesting the […]
Statement by Rev. Stephen Van Kuiken to Presbytery of Cincinnati – June 16, 2003
Madame Moderator, Members of the Presbytery, Brothers and Sisters in Christ: We are here to decide not just whether I have broken a rule. You are being asked not just whether I have disobeyed the orders of the Permanent Judicial Committee. The real question before you is whether I have acted in obedience to Jesus […]
Presbyterian Minister Faces Punishment by Cincinnati Presbytery on Monday, June 16, 2003
Soulforce Supporters will stand vigil outside meeting in support of Rev. Van Kuiken who faces possible defrocking and expulsion for performing same-sex marriage ceremonies Soulforce Press Release, June 13, 2003For Immediate ReleaseContact: Laura Montgomery RuttCell 717-278-0592 email:soulforcemedia@aol.com Cincinnati – On Monday, June 16, Rev. Stephen Van Kuiken, minister of Mt. Auburn Presbyterian Church in Cincinnati, […]
Phoenix Clergy, Gay Southern Baptists, and Soulforce to Hold Press Conference Outside Southern Baptist Convention – Monday, June 16, 2003 at 6:00PM
Booklet to be released comparing quotes by Southern Baptist leaders to anti-gay minister Fred Phelps Soulforce Press Release, 06/11/03For Immediate ReleaseContact: Laura Montgomery RuttCell 717-278-0592 email:soulforcemedia@aol.com (Phoenix, AZ) – For the fourth year in a row, Soulforce, Inc. will be on the front lines of the Southern Baptist Convention’s (SBC) annual meeting trying to dialogue […]