BYU, SPIRITUAL VIOLENCE, AND LGBT ACTIVISM Matt, Emil, Mike, and twenty-three other college-age activists visited BYU-Provo and BYU-Idaho, as part of the 2007 Soulforce Equality Ride to end religion based discrimination and spiritual violence against God’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) children. These three young gay men, who all grew up LDS, brought a …