Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: We Are Family Born-Agains and Other Strangers The Vision Thing The Privileged Position of the Christian Right My Gay Agenda 1. 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 Four Narratives Use Your Inside Voice 2. 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 3. Origin Stories (with Jyl J. Josephson) 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 4. Getting What "We" Deserve Pick an Enemy And Now We Are Terrorists Setting the Straight Story The Politics of Desert Where's the Harm? Bringing Us All Together Afterword: Another Gay Agenda Listen Up! Out in the Public Another Gay Agenda Notes Index
Cynthia Burack is Associate Professor of Women's Studies at the Ohio State University. She is the author of Healing Identities: Black Feminist Thought and the Politics of Groups and coeditor (with Jyl J. Josephson) of Fundamental Differences: Feminists Talk Back to Social Conservatives.
"...Sin, Sex, and Democracy ... reads both as a protest against the virulence of Christian Right homophobic discourse and also as a navigating tool for interacting with it." - GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies "...seamlessly integrates queer theory, religious history, communications theory, political science, and evangelical pop culture." - National Women's Studies Association Journal "The American Protestant religious right's animosity toward lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and the transgendered (LGBT) is a well documented longstanding political phenomenon, but ... Cynthia Burack's Sin, Sex, and Democracy develop[s] new insights about the structure and significance of this animosity." - Politics and Religion "This book offers a meticulously detailed account of the way in which antigay discourse is constructed and employed by the Christian Right and those closely associated with it. It is a topic of significance and central to the academic study of politics and cultural practice of politics, particularly in the United States." - Angelia R. Wilson, author of Below the Belt: Sexuality, Religion, and the American South "The appeal of this book is the niche it fills: at a time when critics take well-worn and cheap shots at the Christian Right ill fitting the seriousness of the times, this author demands that critics take the Christian Right seriously, not only politically, but theologically." - Amy E. Ansell, editor of Unraveling the Right: The New Conservatism in American Thought and Politics
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