BOISE -- Dozens of demonstrators converged on Brigham Young University's main campus in Provo, Utah today in an attempt to get that school to change its polices against homosexual behavior.

The group Soulforce says it aims to foster healthy dialogues of tolerance with Christian campuses around the country.

BYU says the demonstrators are not welcome there.

This same group, Soulforce has two stops planned in Idaho next month.

It is a campaign of biblical proportions - literally. 

Soulforce is a grassroots gay and lesbian organization that is taking on religious colleges and universities whose policies ban active homosexuality or have very strict rules against the practice.

Soulforce calls this campaign an equality ride and it's coming soon to a college near you.

The group plans to visit 32 schools over 60 days and in a few days they'll bring their campaign to Nampa .

Fifty young adults from all walks of life are on a mission they say to change the dialogue between bible-based universities and the gay and lesbian community, dialogue Soulforce deems reckless, irresponsible and downright wrong.

It's a well-organized grassroots campaign comparing its plight to the that of the civil rights struggles and uses the image of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to emphasize the comparison.

Equality riders rely on public donations to complete their national college bus tour by soliciting sponsors for each rider, ranging from $20 to $5,000. 

On their Web site, www.soulforce.org , lists 89 Christian colleges and universities whose policies they contend discriminate against the gay and lesbian community. Among them Oral Roberts, Baylor, Southwest Baptist, Bob Jones and Messiah.

All according to Soulforce have teachings and policies that lead to spiritual violence - which is described by Soulforce, “as the misuse of religion to sanction the condemnation and rejection of any of god's children.”

Soulforce is known to its fight to evangelical leaders like Dr. James Dobson’s Focus on the Family headquarters where the group staged a sit-in.

“Marriage has been defined as being between a men and women for 5,000 years,” said Dobson.

Dobson is one of the most outspoken evangelicals against homosexuality.

“This is the most intrusive social experiment that will ever have been perpetrated,” said Dobson.

Dobson’s anti-gay teachings have become a focal point for Soulforce, waging sit-ins and launching petitions for public rebuke against him.

Soulforce is calling on the religious community and colleges to examine their alleged misuse of religion to discriminate against homosexual and transgender people.