Note: Abilene Christian University requested that no photos be taken at official events. The Soulforce Equality Ride honored that request. Dinner with administrators and students at Abilene Equality Riders heading to chapel at ACU Robin Reed and Abilene Director of Student Life
Archives for March 2006
Dialog Begins on Ending Abilene Christians Discriminatory Policy
****************************************** SOULFORCE PRESS RELEASE: March 27, 2006 For Immediate Release Contact: Richard Lindsay, Press Liaison Cell: 646-258-7193 Email: richard@equalityride.com ****************************************** (Abilene, TX) – Equality Riders completed a full day of presentations, discussions and worship with students at Abilene Christian University today, the first school to allow the Riders full access to campus. The school, affiliated […]
Oklahoma Escape
by Jacob Neal Oklahoma City, OK Our first day off! What a relief! The question looming in everyone’s mind after our mentally taxing days at OBU was how should we spend this glorious day off here in Oklahoma City, the thriving metropolis of the Midwest? Bill provided us with the clear answer: breakfast at IHOP. […]
Seeds Planted at OBU
by Kayla Bonewell and Pam Disel At every one of the Equality Ride’s 19 stops, two Riders were assigned to be the advance team. Pam Disel and I, both Oklahomans, were in charge of the Oklahoma Baptist University events. It was an amazing and daunting task to coordinate two days worth of activities between 33 […]
Oklahoma State Representative Uses Equality Ride as Excuse to Discriminate Against Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Youth; Dialogue Continues in Shawnee at Oklahoma Baptist University
****************************************** SOULFORCE PRESS RELEASE: March 24, 2006 For Immediate Release Contact: Richard Lindsay, 646-258-7193 richard@equalityride.com ****************************************** Shawnee, OK — In a shocking reversal, the Oklahoma state school board yesterday overturned a policy protecting gay students from discrimination from teachers. The previous policy stated that teachers could not “deny benefits to any student” or “grant any […]
Photos from the Soulforce Equality Ride, March 23rd & 24th, 2006
Equality Riders going to chapel at Oklahoma Baptist University Ryan Rolston tells her story of being dismissed from OBU Riders and community members listening to Ryan Rolston’s story Community members in Lions Club park Rider Jonathan Awtrey does “outreach” with a local resident Equality Riders (try) to get rhythm Equality Riders at Church of the […]