Its no secret that Soulforce and its Equality Riders don’t like Christian school policies which discourage sexual activity and its attendant diseases.
Jarrett Lucas, one of four black participants on the Soulforce Equality Ride lambasted Kentucky’s Simmons College as one of the “worst” he has seen. Lucas responded to Soulforce forum post questioning Soulforce’s decision to target HBCU campuses when they are not per se “Christian”. Lucas’ arrogant disdain for biblical standards of sexual conduct was palpable in his remarks:
Our last stop this year is Simmons College of Kentucky, which, like Spelman, is also a faith-based historically black college. Simmons has one of the worst policies I have ever seen. Beyond condemning sexual and gender diversity, it goes on to express that families without a mother and a father figure are broken semblances of what a real family is. That rhetoric was not born of pen and paper or in a student handbook. It comes from history and doctrine, from the abuse of power coupled with an unfortunately prevalent ignorance. And, these sentiments are not unique to Simmons College. I can guarantee that we will find them on every campus we visit, including Spelman. Yes, it will be in varying degrees and manifestations, but that does not lessen our responsibility to go and work towards understanding.”
Understanding? How could Soulforce be seeking understanding based on one-way dialogue? Simmons College was targeted because it believes what the Bible says about sexual immorality and homosexuality and encourages students to live a life free of sexual sin. How is that ”discrimination” and “unequal”, given the skyrocketing cases of HIV in the black community among young men? Why does Lucas and Soulforce want to encourage more young black men and women to get involved in high risk sexual behavior which has been proven to be a major factor in the transmission of HIV?
Soulforce and Lucas are delusional and should never be allowed to have access to Christian students to even suggest that “equality” means accepting homosexual behavior and even worse getting involved in it. Let’s keep Christian schools SAFE from Soulforce and its life-devaluing concepts of equality.
Have you notice the trend? It seems most Black pundits are very quick and vocal in their denouncement of ANY person or institution that has the temerity to say that Mother and a Father are preferable when raising children.
What is it about the so-called leaders of Black America that makes them refuse to demand responsibility from Black males? They screamed at Cosby, they wanted to castrate Obama, and now they’re attacking universities.
By: jonolan on September 15, 2008
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Again, you speak for POC communities. What gives you that authority?
I promise that no matter what studies you have read, you have no understanding of HIV/AIDS in the Black Community.
You have no idea what you are speaking about.
By: Lilita Negron on September 16, 2008
at 3:27 am
Yeah, this guy Lucas has very strange worldviews.
By: Conservative Christian on September 17, 2008
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The Equality Ride promotes acceptance of those whose orientation is lesbian, gay, or bisexual, and transgender individuals. I think your distortion of their message to portray it as a promotion of sexual promiscuity is a deliberate straw man argument.
Furthermore, as someone who works in public health with a focus on HIV/AIDS, I’d like to point out that if you are going to make the case that the morality of a person’s sexual orientation is related to the likelihood that their sexual behavior will lead them to contract HIV, that logic would indicate that the most moral orientation for all women would be lesbianism, since there have only been several documented cases of HIV transmission via female-to-female intercourse in the entire United States (the first case, reported in 2003, was so unusual that it had an entire article devoted to it in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases).
Finally, this blog entry on Jarrett Lucas seems entirely and thoroughly un-Christlike. If Christians are called to model their behavior on that of Jesus, is this how the author of this post honors Him?
By: Curtis on September 20, 2008
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Curtis, SAFE obviously strongly disagrees with your assertion that Equality Ride is all about “promoting acceptance”. If it were all about that, it could be done without ever visiting a Christian college campus.
As for being “unChristlike”, why is challenging injustice a gainst Christian schools “unChristlike”?
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Isnt that right?
By: safeinschool on September 20, 2008
at 8:21 pm
Well said, safeinschool, sooner or later these Christian schools will cease to exist if Soulforce activists will seize political power, and whoever will speak the biblical truth regarding homosexuality, will go to prison, like it was with the pastor in Sweden.
These people have no respect for other people’s property, at all, so sometimes I have a feeling that they could be Marxists in the closet, I mean, they acted like they are.
I am pretty much sure, they would be screaming “oppression and invasion” when some evangelical pastors would come inside the gay clubs they frequent, and ask every patron to repent. I know that they as many other gays and lesbians would want to be left alone and have their privacy respected inside their gay clubs, and I would respect them there, so why can’t they show mutual respect to students who go to Christian schools?
By: Conservative Christian on September 21, 2008
at 9:09 pm
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