Confronting religious denial of gay marriage : Christian humanism and the moral imagination / Catherine M. Wallace.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wallace, Catherine Miles, author.

Series:

Confronting fundamentalism

A confronting fundamentalism book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Same-sex marriage--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Same-sex marriage.

Physical Description:

xv, 92 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Eugene, Oregon : Cascade Books, [2015]

Summary:

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).

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 89-92).

ISBN:

1498225403

9781498225403

OCLC:

929123590

Publisher Number:

90100689630