****************************************** 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 […]
Oklahoma Baptist University
Equality Ride at Oklahoma Baptist University
****************************************** SOULFORCE PRESS RELEASE: March 23, 2006 For Immediate Release Contact: Richard Lindsay, 646-258-7193 richard@equalityride.com ****************************************** (Shawnee, OK) – Soulforce Equality Riders were confined to the student center of Oklahoma Baptist University today as they spoke, prayed and sang with students. The media presence made the small space seem even smaller, as four local TV […]
In the Student Union
by Alisa Streets Hello and greetings from the road! Today was our first day spent at Oklahoma Baptist University. The University allowed us to come on campus, as long as we remained in the Student Union. After we arrived, we broke off into small groups, each focusing on an array of topics. I decided to […]
Presentations Unveiled
by Angel Collie Finally a day to actually sleep in! It was time to move on from the maze-like hotel in Tulsa and venture on to Oklahoma City– a stop I had been excited about for quite a while. We left around noon and arrived at our new hotel around 2:00. We were welcomed with […]
Soulforce Equality Ride Students Announce Historic Itinerary
****************************************** SOULFORCE MEDIA ALERT: January 13, 2006 For Immediate Release Contact: Jacob Reitan, 952-212-8311, jake@soulforce.org Robyn Murphy, 612-965-0838, robyn@soulforce.org ****************************************** (Dallas, TX) With only fifty days till the wheels start rolling; Soulforce announces the historic itinerary of colleges and universities that have anti-gay admission policies. “Colleges and Universities don’t want to make this list! This […]
Out of the Closet at Oklahoma Baptist University
I am a lesbian student at Oklahoma Baptist University. For the past three years, I have lived and gone to school in an environment that teaches that I am less than, that I should want to be straight and work to become that through reparative therapy and ex-gay ministries. I am told that if I […]