Sin, Sex, and Democracy: Antigay Rhetoric and the Christian Right
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While the Christian Right has spearheaded a variety of antigay projects over the past fifteen years, including interventions in public schools, antigay-rights initiatives, and support for a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, observers of the institutionalized Christian Right have also noted a softening of antigay public rhetoric. Sin, Sex, and Democracy analyzes these two ostensibly conflicting phenomena. Examining Christian witnessing tracts, the ex-gay movement, and recent linkages between gays and terrorists, Cynthia Burack argues that as the Christian Right has become a more sophisticated interest group, leaders have become adept at tailoring different messages for mainstream audiences and for the internal pedagogical processes of Christian conservatives. Understanding the rhetoric and the theological convictions that lie behind them, Burack claims, is essential to better understand how American politics work and how to effectively respond to exclusionary forms of political thought and practice.About the Author:Cynthia Burack is Associate Professor of Women's Studies at the Ohio State University
Introduction We Are FamilyBorn-Agains and Other StrangersThe Vision ThingThe Privileged Position of the Christian RightMy Gay Agenda1 Speaking Right 1Queer Is as Queer Does 1Defiling Beds, Hearts, and Minds 2Who're You Talking To? 5Hate the Sin 7Being Intolerant 11Until the End of the World 16Rapture Ready 20Know Your Audience 25Four Narratives 27Use Your Inside Voice 312 The Nightmare of Homosexuality 33Gay Blades 33Laying Hands on Chick 35Behold the Man (and His Time) 36Chick Lit 40The Devil and Homosexuals 42Sin of Sins? 47Marketing Hate 49Politics and Witness 52Pure Rapture 56Framing Chick 59Standing in the Gap 643 Origin Stories Jyl J. Josephson Josephson, Jyl J. 67Becoming Queer 67Saving Homosexuals and America 68Being of Two Minds 73Choice Point 75The Narrative of Development 76What Went Wrong? 79From Development to Compassion 84The Political Work of Compassion 87Our Parents and Friends 91Safety First 95Feeling Sorry for Themselves 964 Getting What "We" Deserve 101Pick an Enemy 101And Now We Are Terrorists 104Setting the Straight Story 109The Politics of Desert 115Where's the Harm? 124Bringing Us All Together 130Afterword: Another Gay Agenda 135Listen Up! 135Out in the Public 137Another Gay Agenda 140Notes 143Index 177