Focus on the Family.
For those of you who haven't heard, Focus on the Family had some big doings on Monday. A lesbian couple visited the campus and asked to speak to Dr. Dobson. When their request was denied they sat down in the lobby and refused to leave. They were then apparently arrested for trespassing and escorted off the premises.
The couple, members of the Christian gay activist group Soulforce, released a statement on the group's website which said the following:
The couple entered the building earlier in the day and refused to leave until the organization's founder, James Dobson, takes a step toward reconciliation with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) communities by ceasing his misleading statements about research on lesbian and gay parents.
And further, Robynne Sapp was quoted as saying:
I am here today because I believed Dr. Dobson's teachings for many years, and it almost led to my suicide. My healing came from my acceptance of myself and my acceptance that God loves me exactly as I am.
How would you respond to someone who said this to you? And just in case you want another thing to pray about, Soulforce Q <the group's youth-led arm> is beginning their 2007 Equality Ride on March 8th. The Ride is described in a press release as:
The 8-week Soulforce Equality Ride will bring them to 32 Christian colleges with policies that silence or exclude lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) students. Their mission: to open a dialogue about the painful consequences of discrimination and the religion-based prejudice that sustains it.
If you were sitting at a Christian college when they drove up, what would you do?
