Discourse, interaction, and testimony: The making of selves in the U.S. Protestant dispute over homosexuality

Theory and Society

Volumn 34, Issue 5-6, 2005, Pages 551-557

  Moon, Dawne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 28844445572     PISSN: 03042421     EISSN: 15737853     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11186-005-3951-6     Document Type: Review

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55. Pseudonyms are used for congregations and people I encountered through my research work, and people's identifying characteristics have occasionally been changed to protect confidentiality. Quotations may be edited for readability as well as to remove identifying details.
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65. Butler, Bodies that Matter.
66. Foucault, History of Sexuality. In that sense, it is like many corrective therapeutic processes such as those Fox describes, or the conversions described by Becker and Ebaugh;
67. Fox, "Reproducing Criminal Types";
68. Howard Becker, "Becoming a Marihuana User," American Journal of Sociology 59 (1953): 235-242;
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71. Butler, Bodies that Matter, 3.
72. For an analysis of this hierarchy in American society, see Gayle Rubin, "Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality," in Henry Abelove, Michèle Aina Barale, and David M. Halperin, editors, The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader (New York: Routledge, 1993), 3-44.
73. Liberals seem to draw their notions of innateness from reports of such studies as Dean H. Hamer et al., "A Linkage Between DNA Markers on the X Chromosome and Sexual Orientation," Science 261 (July 16, 1993): 321-327;
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76. Conservative Christians advise that heterosexuals should indeed refrain from sex, except in marriage. Liberal Christians believe a number of different things on this topic. Some believe extramarital sex to be acceptable, regardless of the genders of the partners, while others see any extramarital sex as equally wrong and thus advocate even more loudly for same-sex marriage rights. Ultimately these different understandings within the UMC point to different understandings of what it means for their policy to state that sexuality "God's good gift" - is it a gift like a talent, to be nurtured, practiced and shared, or a gift like line chocolates, to be savored in moderation? Book of Discipline, ¶65G.
77. Book of Discipline, ¶304.3.
78. Angelides, A History of Bisexuality.
79. Jonah 1:1-4:11.
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87. We could also add transsexual and "promiscuous" to the list of abject categories, though space does not permit a discussion of the avoidance or construction of these categories here.
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90. Martin Luther King, Strength to Love (Fortress [1981]);
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