illegal? i do believe it should be illegal because it s not a civil rights issue, it s a moral issue. as bryant took her campaign across the country, a young pastor with a nationally syndicated television ministry, the old time gospel hour, took note of her success. a pastor of a baptist church in lynchburg, virginia, jerry fall will, heard about anita bryant and went down and learned how he could mobilize volunteers and raise money too. today there s a homosexual revolution in our society. the coming out of the closets. and other places. so the orange juice queen released jerry fall will, the little baptist pastor, to become the first evangelical fundamentalist activist politician. mel white was experiencing this cultural struggle on a deeply personal level. he was not yet out and was working and writing for leaders in the growing evangelical movement.
i had written for billy graham, jerry fall will, the works. i knew jerry falwell very personally because he asked for strength for your journey. by the time i came out, nobody would answer the phone calls, it was over. but during the years white was on speaking terms with falwell, he saw firsthand how he built his base. jerry says, we have to get evangelicals involved in politics so we can get rid of these gay people who are influencing government. they realized that evangelicals were a voting base. that they had power in the polls. he said, let s go mobilize them. and mobilize them he did. into the conservative political organization, the moral majority. the emergence of the moral majority in the late 70s, we saw the emergence of a formal, explicit, organized, and
working and writing for leaders in the growing evangelical movement. i had written for billy graham, jerry fall will, the works. i knew jerry fallwell very personally because he asked for strength for your journey. by the time i came out, nobody would answer the phone calls, it was over. but during the years white was on speaking terms with fall will, he saw firsthand how he built his base. jerry says, we have to get evangelicals involved in politics so we can get rid of these gay people who are influencing government. they realized that evangelicals were a voting base. that they had power in the polls. he said, let s go mobilize them. and mobilize them he did. into the conservative political organization, the moral majority. the emergence of the moral majority in the late 70s, we saw the emergence of a formal, explicit, organized, and faith-based anti-gay movement.
you tell about them. you get the media to tell their story. doesn t it necessarily follow homosexuality ought to be illegal? i do believe it should be illegal because it s not a civil rights issue, it s a moral issue. as bryant took her campaign across the country, a young pastor with a nationally syndicated television ministry, the old time gospel hour, took note of her success. a pastor of a baptist church in lynchburg, virginia, jerry fall will, heard about anita bryant and went down and learned how he could mobilize volunteers and raise money too. today there s a homosexual revolution in our society. the coming out of the closets. and other places. so the orange juice queen released jerry fall will, the little baptist pastor, to become the first evangelical fundamentalist activist politician. mel white was experiencing this cultural struggle on a deeply personal level. he was not yet out and was