Soulforce's Equality Ride is making it's way to Oregon on April 5th!

From Soulforce:

We are working cooperatively with George Fox University to structure a mutually enriching day on campus. On-campus events - including meals shared with students and administrators, classroom presentations, a discussion with health care center staff members, and social time with campus organizations - are open exclusively to George Fox University students and faculty and to the Equality Riders.

Community members who wish to be involved with this stop are welcome to join us for off-campus events in the Portland area, including, but not limited to, a nonviolence seminar with Love Makes a Family and the Black Student Union at Portland Community College, Cascade Campus, on Friday, April 6th, from 1 - 4 p.m., and a hike and picnic lunch at Tryon Creek State Park on Saturday, April 7th, at 10 a.m.

What is Soulforce's Equality Ride?

Homophobia is globally pervasive, and no community or school escapes its reach. In 2006, during the inaugural Equality Ride, participants traveled to nineteen schools and engaged students, faculty, and administrators in conversation about the damaging effects of homophobic doctrine, the false notion that lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender identities are sick and sinful. This year, the journey continues with fifty young adults going to thirty-two Christian colleges and universities. Two buses are taking the group on two distinct routes around the country in creative pursuit of social justice. In doing so, they are empowered to change countless lives. Love liberates the oppressed, redeems the lost, and resurrects the spirit.

To learn more on the Equality Ride, see the West Coast or East Coast routes, click here.

Want to be involved in the Equality ride when it makes its way to Oregon? Get more info here.

Labels: college, gay rights, religion, soulforce

Top of the list is New College of Florida, which provides a campus community most accepting of gay students. It also ranks number one for the most politically active tertiary institution, but ranks worst for a near absence of intercollegiate sports.

The top five gay-friendly Colleges are in order: New College of Florida; Macalester College of St. Paul, Minnesota; Wellesley College in Massachusetts; Eugene Lang College/New School University in New York City; and Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts.

The top College ranked by Princeton Review for academic experience is Reed College in Portland, Oregon; which ranks 18th on the list for being gay-friendly.

The least gay-friendly Universities in America according to this study are Hampden-Sydney College, Virginia; the University of Notre Dame; and Baylor University in Waco, Texas.

Here is the complete list of the Top 20 Gay Friendly Colleges compiled by the Princeton Review:

1.) New College of Florida
2.) Macalester College
3.) Wellesley College
4.) Eugene Lang College/New School University
5.) Mount Holyoke College
6.) St. John's College (MD)
7.) Bryn Mawr College
8.) Lawrence University
9.) Emerson College
10.) Harvey Mudd College
11.) St. John's College (NM)
12.) Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
13.) Wesleyan University
14.) Marlboro College
15.) Carleton College
16.) Smith College
17.) Haverford College
18.) Reed College
19.) Bard College
20.) Oberlin College

Posted by Bryan Harding

Labels: college