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  title info:
    title: Confronting religious denial of gay marriage
    sub title: Christian humanism and the moral imagination
  name:
    name part: Wallace, Catherine Miles
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: oru
    date issued: 2015
    copyright date: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xv, 92 pages ; 22 cm.
  abstract: Writing in part for secular humanists, non-Christians, and ex-Christians, Wallace locates the beginning of religious vilification of LBGTQ Americans: these attacks recycle earlier, equally reactionary political opposition to racial desegregation and equal rights for women. Then, step by step, she lays out three major flaws in the religious argument against gay marriage. First, it derives from Plato and Greco-Roman sexual anxieties, not from Jesus. Second, opposition to gay marriage takes Bible verses out of context, ignoring their roots in Iron Age biology, sexual politics in the classic era, and pagan ritual practices. Third and most importantly, this opposition reflects an inadequate moral theology based on a denial of contemporary science and social science. Then and only then does she offer her own concept of marriage as a morally rooted, creative process, laying out common ground easily shared by Christian humanists and secular humanists alike. Her nimble, accessible account, richly leavened by personal stories, will facilitate new conversations and alliances among all those, believers and nonbelievers alike, who affirm the moral dignity of gay marriage. (Publisher).
  table of contents: Confronting fundamentalism: It's anti-gay -- October 1992: Coming out of the basement -- Gender politics in the 1970s -- The trajectory of human rights after Rosa Parks -- Backstory to an obsession -- The text in question: Gay marriage and the Bible -- Sinful or sacred? Gay marriage and the moral imagination -- 2011: The night the pizza grew cold.
  note: Catherine M. Wallace.
  note: The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 89-92).
  subject:
    topic: Same-sex marriage
    topic: Religious aspects
    topic: Christianity
  subject:
    topic: Homosexuels
    topic: Mariage
    topic: Aspect religieux
    topic: Christianisme
  subject:
    topic: Same-sex marriage
    topic: Religious aspects
    topic: Christianity
  classification: BT707.6 .W355 2015
  classification: 241.63
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Confronting fundamentalism
  identifier: 1498225403
  identifier: 9781498225403
  identifier: 2015487838
  record info:
    record content source: YDXCP
    record creation date: 160223
    record change date: 20230425190807.0
    record identifier: in00004674268
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng