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GUEST: Mel White, author of “Religion Gone Bad: The Hidden Dangers of the Christian Right

Religion Gone Bad is the latest book by Mel White, which details the thirty-year war that fundamentalist Christians have waged against homosexuality and gays and lesbians. Mel White’s first book was his autobiography, “Stranger at the Gate: To Be Gay And Christian In America,” in which he reconciled his Christian faith and his sexual orientation after years of regarding his homosexuality as a sickness and a sin. White served the Christian evangelical movement for many years as a pastor, professor, filmmaker, television producer, author, and ghostwriter for such fundamentalist leaders as Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, and Billy Graham, all of whom he got to know well. He famously broke with the Christian right in the 1990s and today leads the charge against Christian fundamentalism in America. White lives with his partner, Gary Nixon in Lynchburg, Virginia-across the street from Jerry Falwell’s church.

Mel White will be speaking in Los Angeles at Book Soup, 8818 Sunset Blvd in Los Angeles, CA on Monday September 18th at 7 pm. For more information, call 310-659-3110.

For more information, visit www.religiongonebad.com, and www.melwhite.org.