The Minister Who Could Not Be Preyed Away

A crime was committed by United Methodist Church superiors against Conference minister Rev. Dr. William Alberts in 1973 after he performed the same-sex marriage of two male parishioners, which led to his forcible retirement from the New England Conference. The marriage was the triggering, hierarchically condemned, event used by his church superiors to brand him mentally ill and, thus, assassinate his character. However, it was not about Alberts' mental health, but rather the threat posed by his innovative and inclusive pastoral and prophetic services to humanity.Dr. Alberts provides a vivid account of his arduous legal battle against The United Methodist Church, which resulted in a new, precedent-setting, case law, protecting the civil right of the privacy of clergy and other persons. In his latest book, he not only chronicles his quest for justice, but also the authoritarian tendencies of anti-homosexual United Methodist traditionalists, whose use of select biblical passages in their pursuit of authority and power is splitting the denomination.