Christian Science: Its Encounter With Lesbian/Gay America (ISBN 059532620X)

Authentic Approach:
As an `outed' former Christian Scientist, I am especially intrigued with this book. I left the Christian Science Movement, to which I had devoted endless hours and years of service, because I realized that I was a homosexual male in a very unfriendly church. I record this parting in "Worth the Room: An Autobiography of Survival and Service." Bruce Stores has taken on the mammoth task of recording the history of the Gay movement outside and within The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist in Boston, MA. Exciting landmarks of progress for gender related issues in the public forum, publishing, and personal lives fill this book to the overflow. There is nary a page that dulls the mind! Christian Science: Its Encounter with Lesbian/Gay America is well documented, expertly researched and annotated, and thoughtfully balanced in its approach. Never does it denigrate the Church, its employees, directors or members. This is a positive portrayal of things as they have been and as they are. Every single person who has ever been touched by Christian Science-or any homophobic church-should read this book. It will become the landmark of documented persecution-subtle and otherwise-for eons to come.