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Sin, sex, and democracy : antigay rhetoric and the Christian right / Cynthia Burack.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: SUNY series in queer politics and culturesPublication details: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2008.Description: 1 online resource (xxxiv, 187 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781435658646
  • 1435658647
  • 9780791474051
  • 0791474054
  • 9780791478394
  • 0791478394
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Sin, sex, and democracy.DDC classification:
  • 306.76/60882773082 22
LOC classification:
  • HQ76.8.U5 B85 2008eb
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  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Introduction: we are family -- Speaking right -- Queer is as queer does -- Defiling beds, hearts, and minds -- Who're you talking to -- Hate the sin -- Being intolerant -- Until the end of the world -- Rapture ready -- Know your audience -- Narratives -- Use your inside voice -- The nightmare of homosexuality -- Gay blades -- Laying hands on chick -- Behold the man (and his time) -- Chick lit -- The devil and homosexuals -- Sin of sins? -- Marketing hate -- Politics and witness -- Pure rapture -- Framing chick -- Standing in the gap -- Origin stories -- Becoming queer -- Saving homosexuals ... and America -- Being of two minds -- Choice point -- The narrative of development -- What went wrong? -- From development to compassion -- The political work of compassion -- Our parents and friends -- Safety first -- Feeling sorry for themselves -- Getting what "we" deserve -- Pick an enemy -- And now we are terrorists -- Setting the straight story -- The politics of dessert -- Where's the harm? -- Bringing us all together -- Afterword: another gay agenda -- Listen up! -- Out in the public -- Another gay agenda -- Abbreviation.
Summary: 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.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-175) and index.

Introduction: we are family -- Speaking right -- Queer is as queer does -- Defiling beds, hearts, and minds -- Who're you talking to -- Hate the sin -- Being intolerant -- Until the end of the world -- Rapture ready -- Know your audience -- Narratives -- Use your inside voice -- The nightmare of homosexuality -- Gay blades -- Laying hands on chick -- Behold the man (and his time) -- Chick lit -- The devil and homosexuals -- Sin of sins? -- Marketing hate -- Politics and witness -- Pure rapture -- Framing chick -- Standing in the gap -- Origin stories -- Becoming queer -- Saving homosexuals ... and America -- Being of two minds -- Choice point -- The narrative of development -- What went wrong? -- From development to compassion -- The political work of compassion -- Our parents and friends -- Safety first -- Feeling sorry for themselves -- Getting what "we" deserve -- Pick an enemy -- And now we are terrorists -- Setting the straight story -- The politics of dessert -- Where's the harm? -- Bringing us all together -- Afterword: another gay agenda -- Listen up! -- Out in the public -- Another gay agenda -- Abbreviation.

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English.

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.