Stranger at the Gate: To Be Gay and Christian in America.Odd thing about this book. Mel White James Melville White (born 1940) is a gay American clergyman and author. White was a behind-the-scenes member of the Evangelical Protestant movement during the 1960s, '70s, and '80s, writing speeches and ghostwriting books for televangelists such as Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, , gay pastor and activist, hates narrowness of mind. Yet, when talking of the religious Right," which he accuses of whipping up homophobia, he grows positively sulphurous. "The homophobic lies of the religious Right are murdering the souls and threatening the civil rights of gay and lesbian Americans." That's a sample of Mr. White's rhetoric. A former ghostwriter ghost·writ·er n. One who writes for and gives credit of authorship to another. Noun 1. ghostwriter - a writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else ghost for Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson, as well as a noted religious filmmaker, Mr. White recounts graphically his agonized ag·o·nize v. ag·o·nized, ag·o·niz·ing, ag·o·niz·es v.intr. 1. To suffer extreme pain or great anguish. 2. To make a great effort; struggle. v.tr. pilgrimage from husband and father to unabashed gay activist. Having grown up in a way-out fundamentalist family, he tried Christian healing. It didn't take. This book is in some sense his angry thanks-but-no-thanks to a religious culture he believes let him down. There is tenderness and humor in the early chapters but, at the end, mostly hostility, if not near-hysteria. Jerry Falwell seems a lot less obsessed ob·sess v. ob·sessed, ob·sess·ing, ob·sess·es v.tr. To preoccupy the mind of excessively. v.intr. with sex than does Mel White. |
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