With the Rev. Dr. Mel WhiteTaking Our First Steps Towards Lynchburg [From an email I received February 27, 1999]"Please, Mel, just shut up and go away. Take your "soul-force", goody-two-shoes, peacenick Gandhi crap with you when you go. That Gandhi stuff would NOT have worked at Stonewall. Please be quiet, and give our ears a […]
Nonviolence
The Original 17 Step Journey: Step 14
With the Rev. Dr. Mel White"Soulforce Guidelines for Direct Action" Jerry Falwell met with us on August 17, 1999, and agreed to "soften" his antigay rhetoric. He even invited 200 of us to a dinner in Lynchburg, Oct. 22-24. We don’t know what will happen that weekend in Lynchburg, but we do know that we […]
The Original 17 Step Journey: Step 15
With the Rev. Dr. Mel White"Take The Soulforce Vows…" A Quote from Jerry Falwell’s National Liberty Journal, April 1999"If this country officially embraces same sex marriage, the future of our country is doomed. No civilization has officially embraced homosexuality, or same sex marriage, without self destructing. Granting a marriage license to those of the same […]
The Original 17 Step Journey: Step 16
With the Rev. Dr. Mel White"One Journey Ends…Another Journey Begins!" QUESTION: Do you pray? Does prayer play in active role in your life? In one sentence describe your "prayer life" to your partner before you forward this file. If you don’t have a journey partner, write that sentence anyway. If you don’t have a "prayer […]
The Original 17 Step Journey: Step 17
With the Rev. Dr. Mel White"The Next Stage of Our Journey Begins…" When we began this seventeen-step email Journey and the Summer Series of Open Letters to Jerry Falwell, we had no idea where it all would lead. We didn’t dream that Jerry would promise publicly to "soften his antigay rhetoric" nor that he would […]
The Original 17 Step Journey: Introduction
INVITATION TO TAKE A JOURNEY INTO SOULFORCE With the Rev. Dr. Mel White "You are invited to Join us on the Journey…" AN AVALANCHE OF ANGRY EMAILMy nonviolent response to the Tinky Winky Wars ("Bashing Jerry Falwell Hurts Our Cause") set loose an Internet avalanche of anger. A lot of folks hate Mr. Falwell. Who […]