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National Tour for Gay Acceptance Visits Wheaton

Soulforce Equality Ride visits Wheaton College for panel discussions to promote acceptance of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people.

A cross-country social justice bus tour will hit Wheaton College as one of its stops on the two-month campaign promoting acceptance for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people to fundamentalist colleges and universities.

The tour, Soulforce Equality Ride, started its Chicago-based leg of the tour Thursday and will leave Monday, after stops at Wheaton College and the Moody Bible Institute, according to a press release.

The 2012 Soulforce Equality Ride will take 17 young LGBT and allied activists around the country, stopping at religious institutions with anti-LGBT policies. At each stop, riders will be organizing dialogues with students, staff and local communities through public forums, community service projects and performance events.

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The Equality ride will visit Wheaton College and the Moody Bible Institute because of their policies against LGBT people, read the release, "Both schools also lack anti-discrimination and bullying policies that would specifically protect the rights and safety of LGBT(Q) students and faculty."


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