Clobber The Passages by Mel White
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Clobber The Passages by Mel White
For centuries, evangelicals who read the Bible literally have misused seven verses to convince the world that homosexuality is a sin and homosexuals sinners. Those verses have forced LGBTQ+ persons to live their lives under a cloud of shame and guilt. In Clobber the Passages, Mel White doesn’t bother to explain the verses again. That’s been done a thousand times. Instead, he blows away that dark cloud by celebrating the truth learned from America’s leading mental and physical health professionals.
Homosexuality like heterosexuality is just another of the Creator’s mysterious gifts. White calls literalists to stop accusing LGBTQ+ people falsely and to start celebrating what they have achieved throughout history in music, science, athletics, politics, the arts, education, literature, the military, parenting, and even religion. Clobber the Passages presents LGBTQ+ people in a healthy new light and leaves that dark cloud of guilt and shame over the evangelical literalists where it belongs.
Praise for “Clobber The Passages”
Andrew Tobias
“This book is a gift – a total must-read for any person of faith struggling with someone’s being gay…whether that someone is a son, a daughter, a friend—or themselves.”
Andrew Tobias, Author, “The Best Little Boy in the World”
Billy Porter
“Mel’s Stranger at the Gate saved my life. Clobber the Passages just might save yours!”
Billy Porter, Prize-Winning Actor, Singer, Writer, Producer
Troy Perry
“For the past 30 years my friend, Mel White, has fought the lies that trick LGBTQ Christians into believing the Bible condemns them. It does not! And in Clobber the Passages he proves it once and for all.”
Troy Perry, Founder Metropolitan Community Churches, Author: Profiles in Gay and Lesbian Courage & Don’t Be Afraid Anymore
Judy & Dennis Shepard
“We can’t help Matt anymore. But we can help those who came after him, whose parents reject them, whose churches shun them, whose employers bully them. Mel clobbers the seven Bible verses misused by those who reject, shun and bully. And for those who still believe that homosexuality is a sin, Mel tells amazing true stories of LGBTQ people throughout the ages who have proven with their lives that homosexuality is in fact a gift!”
Judy and Dennis Shepard, Co-founders Matthew Shepard Foundation “Easing hate since 1998” www.matthewshepard.org
Jane Clementi
“A healing balm for those damaged by the 7 verses my son Tyler was exposed to during his childhood…verses that devalued his spirit and caused him so much pain and despair. If Mel’s book is read in homes and churches across the nation, families like ours will not have to suffer as we have suffered.”
Jane Clementi, Co-Founder, The Tyler Clementi Foundation, www.tylerclementi.org
Chris Hedges
“The evangelical church is responsible for the suicides of thousands of LGBTQ people, including my closest friend in high school, who they condemned as diseased and worthless. God may forgive them for this, but I can’t. In Clobber the Passages, Mel White has rescued the Gospel from the clutches of these Christian heretics with their perverted worldview.”
Chris Hedges, Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist, Presbyterian minister, Television host, Columnist, and Author, “America: The Farewell Tour.”
Reba Birmingham
Our community is, once again, under serious attack by Evangelicals who have weaponized the Bible to exclude us from our civil rights. Religious leaders are still waging war against us. Whatever side you’re on, Clobber the Passages should be required reading.
Reba Birmingham Award-winning lawyer, poet, folksinger, and author: Floodlight: Book One in the Hercynian Forest series & Words on a Plate: Book 2
Daniel Karslake
“Mel White has done it again! Just as he did with his world-changing memoir Stranger at The Gate: To Be Gay and Christian in America, White has given us this powerful new tool in the war against the misinformation and lies perpetuated by evangelical America against LGBTQIA+ people.”
Daniel Karslake, filmmaker: “For the Bible Tells Me So” (short-listed for an Oscar) and its award-winning sequel, “For They Know Not What They Do” (now streaming).
Alba OnOfrio
“As always, Mel wastes no time getting down to brass tacks! His many years of study and activism shine through in a woven canvas of story, experience, and well-sited proof. No serious anti-LGBTQI fundamentalist stands a snowballs chance in Hell with a case this tight!”
Alba OnOfrio, Co-Executive Director, Soulforce
Rev. Dr. Ken Martin
“It can be said of few books that they could conclusively end a debate about the Bible and homosexuality that has raged for centuries and affected millions of people. Clobber the Passages is the exception. Mel White doesn’t ask us to understand Koine Greek or Biblical Hermeneutics. First, he gives us a most comprehensive review of the scientific, sociological, historical, medical, and psychological evidence against using these passages to condemn LGBTQ people. Then, and even more importantly, he gives us the personal and anecdotal evidence of the ruined lives, dead teenagers and fractured families that inevitably follow. This tired old debate against homosexuality and homosexuals is based on biblical misuse and scientific ignorance. It is long past time to end the use of these distorted ideas of human sexuality to create laws and social norms in the twenty-first century. Mel’s message is clear. Stop it!!
The Rev. Dr. Ken Martin, MCC Elder for S.E. Asia (ret.), Pastor, Author: Together-Ten Building Blocks for a Successful Relationship.
Harold & Ellen Kameya
“I just read Clobber the Passages. Mel, did you get a law degree since I last saw you? You have built a great legal case against using the Bible to condemn LGBTQ people. And you have made it concise, so the jury won’t be tempted to fall asleep.”
Harold and Ellen Kameya, Co-founders Asian Pacific Islander PFLAG. (API)
Jimmy Creech
“The biblical arguments used to justify spiritual violence against LGBTQ people and to deny them civil and human rights had to be exposed as not only misguided, but malevolent. Mel White’s new book, Clobber the Passages, is a magnum opus of historical documentation of anti-gay biblical misinterpretation and theological malpractice.”
Jimmy Creech, De-frocked by the United Methodists for marrying a gay couple. Author, “Adam’s Gift: A Pastor Defies the Church’s Persecution of Lesbians and Gays “
Mitchell Gold
“Mel knows firsthand how fundamentalists have perverted what Christianity is meant to be into a death sentence for some, emotional trauma for others. This book is a true clarion call to stop giving harmful religious dogma a pass. Stand up to it. Bring it to an end.”
Mitchell Gold, co-founder Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams Home Furnishings; activist and advocate to end the religious-based suffering of LGBTQ people.
Frank Schaffer
“Don’t bother arguing with the myriad fools and bigots who STILL insist on using the Bible as a means of bullying gay people – just hand them Mel’s book.”
Frank Schaeffer, American author, film director, and screenwriter. Author, “Why I am an Atheist Who Believes in God” & “And God Said, Billy.”
