Conservative leader calls housing, employment for gays "basic rights" By EARTHA JANE MELZERAug. 26, 2005 The Human Rights Campaign has formally thanked Rev. Jerry Falwell for apparently speaking out in favor of gay rights for the first time publicly. Falwell, the high profile televangelist, founder of the Moral Majority and of the Liberty University, recently […]
Archives for August 2005
Soulforce’s Equality Ride Sends Letter to Naval Academy
Vice Admiral Rodney P. Rempt Office of the Superintendent U.S. Naval Academy 121 Blake Road Annapolis, MD 21402-5000 August 18, 2005 RE: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Dear Vice Admiral Rodney P. Rempt, I am the Director of the Equality Ride, a nationwide movement of young adults seeking to bring understanding about gay, lesbian, bisexual and […]
Report from the Soulforce Action at the 2005 ELCA Churchwide Assembly in Orlando
Soulforce was proud to partner with Goodsoil at the biennial Churchwide Assembly of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) in Orlando, August 8-14, 2005. Karen Weldin, Bill Carpenter and others from Soulforce worked diligently with a planning team from all over the country and were joined in Orlando by courageous souls who were eager […]
Goodsoil to the ELCA: "Discrimination is Unbecoming. Faithfulness Requires Full Participation"
******************************************SOULFORCE MEDIA ALERT: August 3, 2005For Immediate ReleaseContact: Phil Soucy, 703-980-2038, communications@lcna.orgLaura Montgomery Rutt, 717-278-0592, lmrutt@gmail.com****************************************** (Orlando, FL) –Goodsoil, a Lutheran Alliance of which Soulforce is a partner, is adamant that that the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) should change its current policy governing the ordination and rostering of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender […]