What are the motifs in Stranger at the Gate: To Be Gay and Christian in America by Mel White?

The religious right is a recurring idea. Without White's experience with the Religious Right, he would, perhaps unfortunately, not have gained the notoriety that he has. As a filmmaker, ghostwriter or even child of a "fundamentalist" family, White's story of his struggle with homosexuality would be uninteresting on the whole. But White was not only a good ghostwriter, but a great one and his deep connection to the Christian community allowed him to quickly rise to prominence as a ghostwriter for