Taking its name from “soul-force,” the equal-rights advocacy group which takes its name from the application of Mahatma Gandhi’s principles of relentless nonviolent resistance, the documentary SoleJourney takes a look at the LGBT community’s efforts to simultaneously call attention to and undermine religious and political oppression.

Co-directed by Kate Burns and Sheila Schroeder, SoulJourney begins by explaining the dangerous political policy making and anti-LGBT rhetoric of Dr. James Dobson and Focus on the Family, the well-funded, well-connected evangelical Christian organization known for their frequent, scolding outspokenness regarding the lifestyles of gays and lesbians, as well as attempts to curb dedicated civil rights expansion. The movie then follows the small group of dedicated and courageous individuals who make up the Soulforce movement — including co-founder Dr. Mel White and civil rights attorney Dani Newsum — as they take action against this colossal adversary with a six-day, 65-mile march from the Colorado State Capitol in Denver to the Focus on the Family headquarters in Colorado Springs.

Given the fairly ingrained nature of an older generation’s collective mindset as well as the subjectivity of this work, it’s doubtful whether SoulJourney can in fact serve to persuade any minds to its cause. It has brevity on its side, though. The fact that the movie runs only an hour may be a strike against it in some quarters, but it actually shows that Burns and Schroeder didn’t feel it necessary to load up on too much emotional history. They sketch out a history of recent advances (the fact that the Supreme Court struck down all state anti-sodomy laws in only 2003, for instance), then simply juxtapose this with bits of footage from Dobson speeches and appearances, where he inveighs against gays by bizarrely citing air-quote research that “shows they have 300 to 1,000 sexual partners in a lifetime.” The rest of the movie is peppered with talking head interview footage and stirring personal testimonials, including from the aforementioned White, who talks about undergoing electro-shock therapy and exorcisms in an effort to change his sexual inclinations. Fair-use clips from CNN and other news programs do a good job of highlighting the commonalities in Soulforce’s fight against institutional oppression.

Housed in a regular plastic Amaray case, SoulJourney comes to DVD in 1.33 full screen. Its bonus features are anchored by three trailers for First Run home video releases and an eight-minute short film, Marriage Equality Action, which makes liberal use of affiliate Fox News footage in highlighting the story of a Colorado marriage license story. There’s also a text-based, scrollable directors’ statement, as well as an electronic press kit and list of other educational resources. For more information, click here; to purchase the DVD via Amazon, click here. B (Movie) B- (Disc)