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More about Soulforce's Equality Ride, including its route, is available from the group's website.

Soulforce's visit to Liberty last year was covered in the local media.

Other news coverage of the Equality Ride includes:

Falwell won't allow visit of gay-rights group to Liberty | A nationwide bus tour to promote gay rights at conservative Christian colleges may get off to a rocky start Friday when it visits Liberty University, which has announced the activist group is not welcome on its Lynchburg campus. (Associated Press, March 8, 2006)

'Equality riders' seek justice at anti-gay colleges | A fellow college student told Reitan he had to stay closeted at Wheaton College, a nearby religious school, because of its explicitly anti-gay rules. "That's horrible! Something has to be done about that," responded Reitan, a lifelong Lutheran. "Oh, no," the Wheaton student replied. "It's a good policy. I think it's a sin to be gay." (Deb Price, Detroit News, March 06, 2006)

Gay rights group aims for LU | On Friday, a group of gay rights activists may risk jail to come to Liberty University. (The News & Advance, Va., March 5, 2006)

A 'freedom ride' to anti-gay colleges | Four Minnesotans will be among a group of young people who will begin a bus journey to 19 Christian colleges that have anti-gay admission policies. (Minneapolis Star-Tribune, March 3, 2006)

Christianity Today's coverage of Soulforce includes:

Coming Attractions | Gay activism is not just found in liberal churches. A Christianity Today editorial (July 28, 2003)

Falwell Tames His Tongue | Moral Majority founder promises to tone down anti-gay speech at meeting with homosexuals. (December 6, 1999)

The CCCU has issued a press release about the Equality Ride launch, which happened outside CCCU's Washington offices.

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