Kinsolving served as chaplain at
San Quentin Prison in California and at parishes in several states. In 1957, he was denounced and defrocked by the Episcopal church for his sermons. In 1966, he began writing a religion column for the
San Francisco Chronicle. By the 1970s, Kinsolving's column on religious matters was widely syndicated. Based at the
San Francisco Examiner, he began an exposé on the
Peoples Temple which was discontinued when the followers of
Jim Jones responded by protesting and threatening lawsuits. Kinsolving had a minor role as
Confederate General William Barksdale in a couple of films:
Gettysburg and
Gods and Generals. He hosted a radio show on
WCBM in
Baltimore,
Maryland.
Views on gay rights Kinsolving was an outspoken opponent of
gay rights organizations – "the
sodomy lobby," as he referred to them – mainly because of his religious beliefs. He is known for being the first
White House correspondent to ask questions about the
HIV/AIDS epidemic during the
Reagan administration; he continued to ask questions about the disease even though press secretary
Larry Speakes and some other correspondents made light of it; Speakes joked that Kinsolving had an "abiding interest in the disease" because he was "a ". Kinsolving first asked questions about AIDS in 1982; President Reagan would not acknowledge the epidemic until 1985, by which time more than five thousand people had died from the disease. ==Death==