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POPSgay rights activists arrested trying to go to college chapel
cont: “Our plan was to walk silently with our Bibles to the morning chapel service and attend the service quietly before leaving campus,” Genth said. The group walked down a public street that runs through the campus. When they approached the chapel, the administration greeted them with armed police officers and handcuffs, according to Genth. “Each rider was read a statement stating that we were not welcome on campus and that setting one more foot toward chapel would subject us to arrest,” he said. The first five group members who were read the statement stepped toward the chapel and were arrested. The rest of the group stayed outside the chapel, singing and reading Scripture. “Later in the day a student named Heather came to us for dialogue and brought us some sunshine of hope by telling us that the current generation of students understand more about homosexuality and that in the future, as leaders, they would not display the inhospitality that we encountered today,” G
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