United Methodist Church Breaks Our Heart Again
We condemn the United Methodist Church (America’s second largest Protestant denomination) for its February 29, 2019 vote to maintain prohibitions on homosexuality and to expel LGBT pastors... Read More
Mel White, Author and LGBTQ Activist
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Remembering Billy
Mel White (The Ghostwriter of Billy Graham) Billy Graham is dead. He was my friend and I mourn his passing. For two years I... Read More
Weaponized Religion in America
The Rev. Jerry Falwell, center, with Republican presidential candidate Ronald Reagan and Macel Falwell, wife of the religious leader, in 1980. Falwell persuaded many fundamentalist... Read More
When I Watched Trump Get Elected
Millions of Americans had visceral reactions to Donald Trump winning the Presidency. But for Mel White and his husband, Gary Nixon, it affected them differently... Read More
Donald Trump and Angry Voters
Donald Trump and Millions of Angry Voters are Working for a Dead Man By Mel White Whether they know it or not, Trump and millions... Read More
Killers: Matthew and Tyler Williams
On July 1, 1999, Matthew and Tyler Williams broke into the country home of Gary Matson and Winfield Scott Mowder, a well-known and much-loved northern... Read More
Huffington Post Chooses Stranger
The Huffington Post asked their readers to name the books that shaped the way they felt about themselves as LGBT people. While this is by no means... Read More
Praise for “Grace and Demion”
[br]Hi friends, I’m so pleased to present this book review by David Parker. Enjoy! Mel Review of Grace and Demion by David Parker From the... Read More
What Makes Jesus Mad as Hell?
Jesus was angry. Children who wanted to see him were being turned away. “Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me,”he warned his... Read More
The “Religious Exemption” A Clear and Present Danger
The current U.S. Supreme Court case Sebelius v Hobby Lobby is simply the most recent ploy by the religious right to superimpose their “family values”... Read More
Warning: Exodus is finished but the ex-gay movement has just begun
Celebrate the headline Exodus International Closes Down. Thank Alan Chambers for his confession that “ex-gay therapy” does not work and for his apology for the... Read More
Jesus Was Lynched
NOTE: This book review was awarded FIRST PLACE by the Los Angeles Press Club in their National Entertainment Journalism Award…Critic On Line. Jesus Was Lynched By... Read More
Playing the Anti-Muslim Card
On the weekend of Sept. 14-16, 2012, while President Obama and Secretary Clinton struggled to put out fires ignited by a crude, anti-Muslim video made... Read More
Republican vs. Democratic Party Platforms on LGBT people
The 260 words below (from the Republican Party Platform) make it clear. If they are elected, we could lose every gain we’ve made. The 115... Read More
You Stupid Son of a….
Almost every morning I walk the beach to Starbucks, buy a café mocha, sit on a bench at the end of the pier and watch... Read More
Parting is Such Sweet Sorrow
By: Mel White | The News & Advance Published: April 15, 2012 Updated: April 15, 2012 – 6:00 AM On Palm Sunday, April 1,... Read More
“Angry Queers” Break Stained-Glass Window
Posted: 06/13/2012 5:04 pm There is an Internet story gone viral about “Angry Queers” breaking historic stained-glass windows in the old Mars Hill Church in... Read More
Not Bitter – Old Activist Looks Back
After my last Huffington Post Blog, “Angry Queers” Break Stained Glass Windows, I received this email: “Always enjoy reading your words and hearing your thoughts... Read More
Playing the ‘Wrath of God’ Card
President Obama Says ‘No’ to Holy Terrorism Mel in the Huffington Post Posted: 05/25/2012 3:55 am When President Obama announced his support for same-sex... Read More
For LGBT People Best and Worst of Times
Good News! Bad News! Huffington Post Posted: 06/01/2012 7:50 pm On June 1, 2012, one Los Angeles Times headline reads, “Southern Baptist pastor Fred Luter... Read More
Adam’s Gift by Jimmy Creech
JIMMY CREECH long time Soulforce friend and former board member will be reading and signing his new book: ADAM’S GIFT Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh April... Read More
OPEN LETTER TO AMERICAN TELEVANGELISTS IN UGANDA
An Open Letter from Soulforce to Jan and Paul Crouch, founders of the Trinity Broadcasting Network, and the Evangelical Christian broadcasters who are featured on... Read More
NEW FUTURE FOR CHILDREN, CAMBODIA
Q: WHY ARE YOU AND GARY SO INTERESTED IN HELPING CHILDREN IN CAMBODIA? A: In the 1970s during the war in Vietnam, Nixon launched a... Read More
A Manifesto by John Shelby Spong
A Manifesto! The Time Has Come! John Shelby Spong I have made a decision. I will no longer debate the issue of homosexuality in the... Read More
My First White Party
A White Party? You actually went to a White Party? At your age? And a clergyman? One of our friends found it difficult to believe... Read More
“Embarrassing to be a Christian”
Earlier this year, my son, Mike, and I were featured in a Newsweek interview (Feb. 16, 2009) that created a firestorm torched by fundamentalist Christians... Read More
Why we can’t wait…to take it to the streets!
It’s been more than thirty years since this latest season of protest began at the Stonewall Bar in New York City, and with all the changes we can celebrate, the real problem remains the same: the antigay religious teachings and actions that support intolerance and discrimination are still powerfully in place in our Protestant and Catholic Churches. ... It is time to commit ourselves to participate in local, regional, state-wide and national campaigns of relentless nonviolent resistance (guided by the ‘soul force’ principles of Gandhi and King) that will convince church leaders to do justice at last.