Stranger at the Gate

I just finished a book that I could recommend to all of you. It is called Stranger at the Gate: to be Gay and Christian in America. The author is Mel White. It is literally the story of his life, from childhood to the 1990's which is a 50 year time span. He grew up in this very religious born again society, became a minister, filmmaker for the religious right, and a "ghost writer" for all sorts of ministers, etc.

When you read the book, you feel his pain. You'll see the similarities to what Gay mormons feel and deal with in Church. The story is so similar.... The book isn't like anything I had ever read before. I bought it at a Barnes and Noble in Salt Lake one day when I was up there.

You see the man's journey from despising himself to accepting, and loving himself. You see the blessings and the troubles.

Worth the read my friends. Don't expect it not to make you wonder if the LDS Church is making some of the same mistakes the religious right made/makes.

One particularly poignant part of the book tells the story of how Gay Germans were treated in the Holocaust. That alone is worth the read.