Sin, Sex, and Democracy: Antigay Rhetoric and the Christian Right (S U N Y Series in Queer Politics and Cultures) - Softcover

"...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