You Can Run But You Cannot Hide

Minnesota Independent reporter Andy Birkey will discuss his award-winning coverage of the Christian ministry/hard-rock band You Can Run But You Cannot Hide Thursday evening on “Declaring Independence,” the Grand Rapids, Mich., radio show hosted by Michigan Messenger editor Ed Brayton. Tune in life from 5–6 pm Central, or look for the podcast following the show. [...]

Bradlee Dean of You Can Run But You Cannot Hide Intl., Inc., says that the Minnesota Independent has “twisted” and “falsified” his statement on his AM 1280 radio show that suggested that Muslim countries that call for the execution of homosexuals are more moral than American Christians. He did not address his statements that African [...]

Living Word Christian Center (LWCC), a Brooklyn Park megachurch, released a statement following the controversy over  statements made by Bradlee Dean, front man of You Can Run But You Cannot Hide, Intl., Inc. In recent weeks, Dean has spoken in support of countries that imprison and execute gays and lesbians. LWCC acknowledged hosting the group [...]

Randy Thomas, executive vice president of Exodus International, a group that advocates “freedom from homosexuality through the power of Jesus Christ,” condemned the words of hard rock ministry You Can Run But You Cannot Hide Intl., Inc., and its frontman Bradlee Dean. Dean told radio listener’s several weeks ago that Muslim nations that execute homosexuals [...]

The leaders of You Can Run But You Cannot Hide Intl., Inc., a hard rock ministry that holds Christian assemblies in public schools around the Midwest, said that locking up gays and lesbians in prison is the “right” and “moral” thing to do. A week earlier, the group said that countries instituting the death penalty [...]

The Republican-endorsed candidate for governor, Tom Emmer, told the Star Tribune’s Rachel Stassen-Berger that You Can Run But You Cannot Hide Intl., Inc., “are nice people.” You Can Run is a ministry that brings it’s hard rock evangelism into public schools across the Midwest and its front man, Bradlee Dean, told radio listeners recently that [...]

The Minnesota House campaign of Rep. Tom Emmer donated to the ministry of You Can Run But You Cannot Hide Intl., Inc., according to the press secretary for Emmer’s gubernatorial campaign. Emmer is one of several Republican leaders involved with the ministry of Bradlee Dean, who leads a hard rock band that brings its message of Jesus Christ into public schools and recently affirmed the practice of Muslim countries executing gays and lesbians.

You Can Run But You Cannot Hide, a nonprofit ministry that brings its hard rock gospel into public schools, has been deepening its long-running ties to the Republican Party of Minnesota. Long a cause célèbre for Rep. Michele Bachmann, who has twice lent her name to the group’s fundraising efforts, YCR had a booth at the GOP convention in April, and the group’s frontman, Bradlee Dean, reports that gubernatorial candidate Tom Emmer recently accepted an invitation to visit with him at Dean’s home. But controversial statements by Dean — that Muslim countries calling for the execution of gays and lesbians are “more moral than even the American Christians” — has drawn the ire of some within and outside of the party.

You Can Run But You Cannot Hide, the front group for the punk rock ministry of Bradlee Dean, took his brand of fundamentalist Christianity to a DFL gubernatorial meet-and-greet several weeks ago to confront Sen. John Marty about his support for “sin” and homosexuals. Dean and fellow group frontman Jake McMillian repeatedly asked Marty about [...]

“Homosexuality is against the law in the United States,” says Bradlee Dean, the head of the “punk rock” ministry You Can Run But You Cannot Hide, which brings its overtly religious message to public schools at taxpayer expense. Therefore, he concludes, the appointment by Barack Obama of Minneapolis’ Sharon Lubinski, a lesbian, as a U.S. [...]