10 arrested during gay rights protest at Lutheran college
MANKATO — Ten gay rights activists were cited for trespassing after walking onto the Bethany Lutheran College campus as security guards told them to stop.
The activists, who were later released, were among 50 members of the group Soulforce Equality Riders, which is on a national tour to promote gay rights at the nation’s conservative Christian universities and military academies.
Bethany Lutheran College is owned and operated by the conservative Evangelical Lutheran Synod.
About 50 Equality Riders — along with a handful of supporters from Minnesota State University and Gustavus Adolphus College — arrived around 10 a.m. Thursday and stepped off the public sidewalk and onto Bethany Lutheran property.
They were headed for the center of the campus when a security worker shouted to the activists that they must leave or face arrest. Most of them retreated, though 10 protesters kept moving forward and were arrested.
Afterward, Bethany Lutheran students who had been watching talked with the protesters.
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