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Soulforce.


Marching to the strains of "When the Saints Go Marchin' In" and staging a jazz funeral Jazz funeral is a common name for a funeral tradition with music which developed in New Orleans, Louisiana.

The term "jazz funeral" was long in use by observers from elsewhere, but was generally disdained as inappropriate by most New Orleans musicians and practitioners of
, members of the gay rights religious group Soulforce Soulforce may mean:
  • Soulforce, an interfaith organization based in the United States that primarily confronts religious intolerance against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people through protests, civil disobedience, and dialogue with conservative Christian
 apply nonviolent but nonetheless in-your-face tactics to protest the Southern Baptist Noun 1. Southern Baptist - a member of the Southern Baptist Convention
Southern Baptist Convention - an association of Southern Baptists

Baptist - follower of Baptistic doctrines
 Convention's annual conference in New Orleans New Orleans (ôr`lēənz –lənz, ôrlēnz`), city (2006 pop. 187,525), coextensive with Orleans parish, SE La., between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain, 107 mi (172 km) by water from the river mouth; founded  in June.

Thirty-four Soulforce members were arrested as a result of their nonviolent demonstration June 13, Among those arrested were Soulforce executive director the Rev, Mel White and Jimmy Creech.
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Title Annotation:members of gay rights religious group arrested in New Orleans, Louisiana
Publication:The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Aug 14, 2001
Words:71
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