April 21, 2007, the Soulforce Equality Ride attempt a stop at Spring Arbor University. A number of people/ students wrote to them asking them to come and Equality Ride had added Spring Arbor University to the route on the way to Calvin and Cornerstone. Spring Arbor university was not on the Original planned tour.
SAU did NOT ALLOW Soulforce on campus, forcing them to relocate off property to the adjacent street, meeting at the pavilion behind McDonald's & the police station, right across M-60.
The 2007 Equality Ride lasted from March 1 to April 30. Two buses visited 33 schools. One toured the eastern United States, visiting 18 schools, and the other toured the western, visiting 15 schools.
What is Soulforce?
Their mission statement: "The purpose of Soulforce is freedom for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people from religious and political oppression through the practice of relentless nonviolent resistance."
What is the Equality Ride?
Homophobia is globally pervasive, and no community or school escapes its reach. The Equality Ride route has less to do with specific priority and everything to do with the urgency of this conversation. In 2006, during the inaugural Equality Ride, participants engaged nineteen schools. This year, the journey continues with fifty-seven young adults going to thirty-two Christian colleges and universities. Two buses are taking the group on two distinct paths 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.