At his installation, Mel proclaimed his own, heart-felt statement of faith: "I am gay. After more than three decades of counseling and "anti-gay" therapy including prayer, fasting, exorcism, and electric shock, Mel White was able to reconcile his Christian theology and his sexual orientation. The Cathedral was and continues to be the nation's largest gay-lesbian congregation serving approximately 10,000 congregants in the wider Dallas area. On Pride Sunday, June 27, 1993, Mel was installed Dean of the Cathedral of Hope Metropolitan Community Church in Dallas. During that brief window of opportunity when the California Supreme Court made same sex marriages legal, Mel and Gary returned to All Saints Church where they were married, June 18, 2008. Gary was a property manager for the Weyerhaeuser Corporation, in charge of corporate properties across Southern California. Mel and Gary met and fell in love twenty-seven years ago at All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena, California, where Mel served on the vestry and Gary sang baritone in the Coventry Choir.
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