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This noteworthy documentary focuses on the many brave members of Soulforce, a movement to end religious and political discrimination against the LGBT community through non-combative methods. One target is evangelical leader James Dobson, whose toxic rhetoric and social conservative public policy has motivated many to use peaceful negotiation as a weapon to battle him and other anti-LGBT fundamentalists. Featured are participants of the 1000 Watt March, Vigil and Concert, who walked 65 miles to spotlight the "assault on the civil liberties of LGBT people and same-gender families." On hand to share their support and encourage diplomacy are actor and gay rights activist Chad Allen (The Donald Strachey Mysteries), Judy Shepard of the Matthew Shepard Foundation and Soulforce co-founder the Rev. Dr. Mel White. If you're interested in using nonviolent resistance as a way to maintain self-respect while simultaneously tackling prejudice, then SoleJourney is a trip worth taking.

 -- Mario DiMaio