Forget Debates and Dialogue about LGBT Justice, the Religious Right isn’t Listening

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http://www.religiondispatches.org/books/sexandgender/6350/forget_debates_and_dialogue_about_lgbt_justice%2C_the_religious_right_isn’t_listening/

An interview with Mel White
By CANDACE CHELLEW-HODGE



Mel White has made a name for himself in religious right circles by staying on the down low—he spent his early years in the movement ghostwriting books for the likes of fundamentalist Christian superstars Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, and Billy Graham.

White documented his time inside the religious right, his experience with “ex-gay ministries” and his subsequent banishment from the movement when he finally came out as a gay man, in his 1994 autobiography Stranger at the Gate.

In the years that followed, White has used his status as clergy within the Metropolitan Community Church, and later in the founding of Soulforce, an organization dedicated to social justice for the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender community, to unmask the anti-gay agenda of his former comrades.

He and his partner Gary Nixon even went so far as to move to Lynchburg, Virginia and rent a house near Falwell’s Thomas Road Baptist Church, where they attended services every Sunday. They would stand silently whenever Falwell began to preach against homosexuality—a tactic that was effective at first, but eventually lost its punch with the congregation.

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1. Guess what?

Their anti-gay agenda was already well known and being fought against while he was still aiding and abetting them.