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Holy Terror: Lies the Christian Right Tells Us to Deny Gay Equality.
Mel White
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Mel White
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: June 26
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The Bible is not a book of magic. It's a book of mystery. You can't just quote verses that support your prejudices or guarantee your health, wealth, and happiness and demand that God 'follow through' as promised. God is not limited to the words of Scripture. God is still speaking.
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Fundamentalist Christians are my sisters and brothers, my family and friends, my oldest colleagues and coworkers. But I fear their love for the nation has become an obsession to reshape it in their own image.
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A few years ago I switched to an entirely different kind of New Year's resolution. Instead of vowing to improve, I pledge to do a better job of accepting my bad habits - to stop worrying about failing to be the person I used to imagine I could be.
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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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If there is any one message the Bible delivers, it is the message that God loves outcasts and that Jesus was born into the world an outcast to rescue and renew outcasts from religion gone bad. He was born poor and died poor, yet the legacy of love he left us, the legacy of inclusion and acceptance and understanding, will endure forever.
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Although I claim to be a Christian, I live at a moment in time when the Christian faith is being defined by fundamentalists who have dishonored Christ and are in the process of destroying His church. I refuse to wear the 'Christian' label without redefining it.
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When you stand with the outcasts, you stand with Jesus, and when you despise the outcast, you despise Jesus, as well. Becoming an activist is simply a matter of putting love into action.
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My commitment to the Bible [is my] source of progressive values.
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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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During my time in the entourages of Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson, I never saw either of them attack and punish those who disagree, as Dobson does on a regular basis.
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Fundamentalist Christianity is not just a threat to lesbians and gays, but to all Americans who cherish democracy and the rights and protections guaranteed us by the U.S. constitution.
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There's something in the cross that says this is not just about my salvation but about the salvation of all those who suffer injustice and inequality.
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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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Doing justice, loving mercy, seeking truth...these are the issues [the Bible] is clear on.
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I am gay. I am proud. And God loves me without reservation.
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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.
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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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I am convinced that Christian fundamentalism is a far greater threat to this country than Muslim terrorists could ever be.
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