We have a right to be here, because this school teaches that being gay is being sick and sinful. We have a right to question and to show how we are children of God.

Our hope is, we can have a productive day of dialogue [at each stop] about gay and lesbian issues.

We also hope to send out a clear message to gay-lesbian-bisexual-transgender students that God loves them as they are. Today, it's gay and lesbian people who are the outcasts of the church, and later the church will have to repent from it.

If you have time off from school and you choose to go on vacation and go home and hang out for a bit, you're not going to remember what you did during those days. But if you choose to get involved, I promise you you'll remember for the rest of your life what you did during those days.

It's too important to go home.

We are disappointed in those decisions. I think their choice to arrest us reflects on them.