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BYU to Deny Campus Access to Homosexual Activist Group Soulforce

 

We are very grateful to report that BYU has refused to allow members of the homosexual activist group Soulforce Equality Ride on its campus this year (2007). See the Salt Lake Tribune article.

Last year (2006) BYU allowed this group on campus for “respectful dialogue” with individual students, warning them not to demonstrate, hoping to avoid media hype. However, true to form, the group spoke to groups of students on campus, were arrested, and held a formal demonstration near and on campus which some BYU students participated in and where 29 of them were arrested. (Some former BYU students who participated in last year’s demonstration have now joined this group.) They also held a demonstration at Kiwanis Park in Provo. Please see our article “The Proud Volunteer – optional homosexuals and the gay recruitment movement” which reports what occurred there.

This group has targeted religious schools all over the country, including BYU and BYU Idaho, to intimidate and condition them into changing their policies and religious values regarding chastity and natural and proper sex and sexuality, all in the guise of equal rights. In reality this group and others like it are out to systematically undermine our first freedom, the free exercise of religion. It is practicing discrimination against organizations which espouse time-honored religious and moral beliefs.

If you have doubts as to this group’s intentions, read what one of its leaders said, (quoted from Lavender magazine), “I have a special place in my life for Mormons because they exist in the most concentrated petri dish of anti-gay religious rhetoric and its fallout – Utah . . . Where is it the darkest? Go there. At that place will be all the controversy you need to generate media attention . . . If we have success where it is the darkest, the ripples extend much farther. . . Brigham Young was right about Utah: ‘This is the place.’” Click here for more information about this radical group.

Last year Christian universities Oral Roberts, Liberty, and Regent firmly refused this group’s entrance onto their campuses and as a result Soulforce is not including them this year on their tour. Please write to President Cecil O. Samuelson, Brigham Young University, Provo UT 84602, (801) 422-2521, thanking him for refusing this group admittance to BYU and expressing your hope that BYU provide speakers or workshops teaching students the truth about homosexuality and sexual activism. See our letter below.

Click here to read the Deseret Morning News article about the Soulforce visit to BYU and BYU-I.
Click here to read the Salt Lake Tribune article about the Soulforce visit to BYU and BYU-I.


Our Letter to BYU President Cecil O. Samuelson

Dear President Samuelson,

We represent 3,000 Latter-day Saints, a number of whom are alumni and parents of your students, who are very grateful for BYU’s decision to refuse admittance to the homosexual activist group, Soulforce Equality Ride, on campus. Thank you for taking a firm stand. We know that this group is targeting religious schools all over the country, including BYU, to intimidate them into changing their policies and values regarding chastity and natural and proper sex and sexuality, all in the guise of equal rights.

We appreciate your courses on The Family: A Proclamation to the World. In addition, we would like to see BYU offer well-publicized devotionals, workshops, series of articles, or other forums for its students specifically counteracting the worldly trend toward unlimited sex and sexuality. We offer services, materials, and expert speakers for such events free of charge. Please see our web site: www.standardofliberty.org.

Thank you and Lord bless,

Steve Graham
Standard of Liberty Foundation

 

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