The Antigay Agenda: Orthodox Vision and the Christian Right

Didi Herman

Published by University of Chicago Press 1997

The Antigay Agenda

Orthodox Vision and the Christian Right

Didi Herman

https://doi.org/10.7208/9780226327693

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In The Antigay Agenda, Didi Herman probes the values, beliefs, and rhetoric of the organizations of the Christian Right. Tracing the emergence of their antigay agenda, Herman explores how and why these groups made antigay activity a top priority, and how it relates to their political history.

"A penetrating analysis of the Christian Right's antigay agenda and of how that agenda is derived from the Christian Right's peculiar vision of American history and the Christian faith."—Rev. Peter J. Gomes, Boston Book Review

"Public intellectualism at its best. . . . A comprehensive summary of the conservative Protestant worldview."—Michael Joseph Gross, Boston Phoenix Literary Section

"Presents considerable information not previously part of the nation's political discourse. . . . [Herman] dissects the Christian Right's antigay stance dispassionately giving, as it were, the devil his due. For anyone on either side of this passionate and important conflict, that is an impressive accomplishment."—Hastings Wyman, Jr., Washington Post Book World

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
1. Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. Devil Discourse and the Shifting Construction of Homosexuality in Christianity Today Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
3. Representing Homosexuality and Its Agenda Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	60
4. No Lesbians, Gay Lesbians, Feminist Lesbians Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	92
5. (Il)legitimate Minorities. The Construction of Rights- (Un)deserving Subjects Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
6. The Christian Right versus Gay Rights in Colorado, 1992-1996 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
7. Regulation, Restoration, Reconstruction Conservative Christianty and the State Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	170
Afterword: Thoughts on Backlash and Utopia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	194
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	222
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237