Rick336
06-08-2006, 08:31 PM
From a 356gay.com news report June, 8, 2006
(Provo, Utah) A Brigham Young University student has been suspended and four others disciplined for taking part in an April LGBT protest at the school.
Matthew Kulisch, 24, was considered one of the local organizers of the Soulforce Equality Ride demonstration at the school.
He was suspended but the action was put on hold.
"They kicked me out of the university but upon further consideration decided I could stay under certain terms and conditions," Kulisch told the Deseret Morning News.
He said he plans to leave BYU and enroll at the University of Utah in the fall.
During the Equality Ride protest Kulisch came out during a press conference on April 10. The following day he led a march of Soulforce riders from Provo Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to the campus. There he and 23 others held a "die-in" to illustrate the number of Mormon gays who have taken their own lives over what the group called the church's discrimination.
The Equality Ride was a 51 day cross-country trip organized by the nondenominational group Soulforce to draw attention to schools which do not admit LGBT students.
During two days of demonstrations at BYU 29 riders were charged with trespassing.
Wednesday an attorney entered guilty pleas for 21 of the riders and a judge fined each of them $200. The remaining 8 are expected to enter guilty pleas later this month.
In May 23 people who participated in a gay demonstration at Jerry Falwell's Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia were fined $200 on trespassing charges following protests there.
The Ride wrapped up March 26 with a demonstration at West Point where 21 riders were arrested.
Ten riders were arrested on the grounds of the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs.
Riders also have been arrested at Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma; and Regent University in Virginia Beach, Virginia (story) which is affiliated with Christian Broadcaster Pat Robertson.
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(Provo, Utah) A Brigham Young University student has been suspended and four others disciplined for taking part in an April LGBT protest at the school.
Matthew Kulisch, 24, was considered one of the local organizers of the Soulforce Equality Ride demonstration at the school.
He was suspended but the action was put on hold.
"They kicked me out of the university but upon further consideration decided I could stay under certain terms and conditions," Kulisch told the Deseret Morning News.
He said he plans to leave BYU and enroll at the University of Utah in the fall.
During the Equality Ride protest Kulisch came out during a press conference on April 10. The following day he led a march of Soulforce riders from Provo Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to the campus. There he and 23 others held a "die-in" to illustrate the number of Mormon gays who have taken their own lives over what the group called the church's discrimination.
The Equality Ride was a 51 day cross-country trip organized by the nondenominational group Soulforce to draw attention to schools which do not admit LGBT students.
During two days of demonstrations at BYU 29 riders were charged with trespassing.
Wednesday an attorney entered guilty pleas for 21 of the riders and a judge fined each of them $200. The remaining 8 are expected to enter guilty pleas later this month.
In May 23 people who participated in a gay demonstration at Jerry Falwell's Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia were fined $200 on trespassing charges following protests there.
The Ride wrapped up March 26 with a demonstration at West Point where 21 riders were arrested.
Ten riders were arrested on the grounds of the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs.
Riders also have been arrested at Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma; and Regent University in Virginia Beach, Virginia (story) which is affiliated with Christian Broadcaster Pat Robertson.
©365Gay.com 2006
To visit 365Gay.com click here: http://www.365gay.com/