Mel White
Mel White
James Melville "Mel" Whiteis an American clergyman and author. White was a behind-the-scenes member of the Evangelical Protestant movement through the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, writing film and television specials and ghostwriting auto-biographies for televangelists such as Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, and Billy Graham. After years of writing for the Christian right, he came out as gay in 1994. and devoted himself full-time to minister to lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgender people, also writing extensively on the subject of gay...
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My commitment to the Bible [is my] source of progressive values.
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Because of their excessive commitment to a literal Bible, fundamentalist Christians have fallen into the trap of biblioltry.
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I have known Jerry a long time and I think this was a serious change in his life, ... Never before has he said that he recognized us as a class -- as a protected class -- like other Americans. Now he has included us as gay and straight, right in there with black and white, man and woman, rich and poor, young and old and everybody else. That's important.
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It's a neighborhood bar. Everyone wanders in and out. It's really a family bar.
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We're listening to each other. I think, down the long road, we're going to be reconciled, and it starts today,
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I really think we all have to take a good look at what we send out and start changing it for the sake of the greater good.
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We cheer the presence of an openly gay woman or man on television there are large numbers of people in Virginia and other states who see these public affirmations as another step towards the country's oblivion.
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The Bible becomes a dead idol when we call the words between its covers inerrant, infallible, to be taken literally. This is not a dead book. It is alive. Open it carefully because the new truth that might come leaping out at you could change your life forever.
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In my lowest moments, when I genuinely longed for death, I knew that Jesus would walk with me through that valley as well.
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It would be catastrophic if one day these fundamentalists Christians gain enough political power to enforce their literal understanding of Mosaic Law.
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I am gay. I am proud. And God loves me without reservation.
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It's beginning to feel like there is no room in America for anyone who is not a fundamentalist Christian.
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Jerry Falwell turned gay bashing into a very successful art form.... the first fundamentalist to exploit the fear and loathing of homosexuals to raise hundreds of millions of dollars and add millions of new donors to his mailing list.
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Gary Nixon and I have had a loving, committed, faithful relationship for twenty-five years (now over 30) yet we are denied more than a thousand rights and protections that go automatically with marriage.