God Hates Fags: The Rhetorics of Religious Violence

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Index 217 Abington Township v. Schempp, 127 Abortion, 158 Adoption, 9 Advocate, 5 African Americans: authors and incest narratives, 165–66; and blackness, 47–50, 171; and Christian rhetoric, 16; and ethnicity, 83; race theory, 204n31; and racism, 44; and religion, 195n24; religion and history in the work of Baldwin, 58–60, 196–97n27; and signifying , 140; and social reform, 97–98; and “special rights,” 41; typicality and representation, 198n31; in work of Ellison, 92–93. See also Blackness; Race Agamben, Giorgio, 33–36, 67, 153, 176, 189n22 AIDS, 181, 202n6 Allison, Dorothy, 20, 172–178, 214–15n34, 215n35 Althusser, Louis, 193n15 Amendment 2 (Colorado), 4–6, 12, 18, 29, 40, 120, 140–41, 147, 210n48; and analogy between queerness and race, 19, 114, 116–19; and authority, 29; campaign, 119–23; and language of religious right, 18; legal challenges to, 130–31; responses to passage of, 115–17, 130, 186n10; and sentimentality , 137; and “special rights,” 41–42; and “suspect classes,” 117–19, 131, 207n6; text of amendment, 120. See also Romer v. Evans American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), 126, 208n26 American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) (Colorado), 4, 41 Americans with Disabilities Act, 41 Analogy, 44, 140. See also Queer(ness), analogy with race Andrews, George, 127 Angels in America (Kushner), 180–84 Antigone, 178 Anti-slavery, 40–41, 96–97; and literature of protest, 84; and sentimentality, 41 Appelby, Scott, 155–56 Arendt, Hannah, 33, 176, 188n9 Aristotle, 46 Armstrong, Nancy, 63, 198n36 Aspen, Colorado, 119 Baldwin, James, 16, 114, 146, 199n43; and analogy between sexuality and race, 93, 111; use of blackness and Christian rhetoric, 53–54, 58–61; and civil rights, 143; “Every Good-bye Ain’t Gone,” 59, 69; Giovanni’s Room, 61–62, 198n32; Go Tell It on the Mountain, 17, 54–60, 64, 71–78, 82, 87, 93, 113, 142–45, 168, 197n29, 199n43, 201n60, 201n64; “Here Be Dragons,” 111–12; and “identity politics,” 143; on masculinity and violence, 112; and race protest, 110–11; on religion and the body, 200n56; religion and history in work of, 58–60, 196–97n27; and religious violence, 54; representation of Baldwin, James (continued) African Americans, 198n31; story of Noah and Ham, 72–73, 96, 200n56; on Stowe, 60, 111, 198n31; use of religious rhetoric, 64–65, 70, 197n29 Bankruptcy laws, 31 Baptists, 195n24 Barrett, Lindon, 204n31 Bastard Out of Carolina (Allison), 172–78, 214–15n34, 215n35 Beloved (Morrison), 63 Bercovitch, Sacvan, 7, 25–26 Berlant, Lauren, 55, 63, 135–37, 145–46, 190n28, 191n51, 194n20, 198n37, 199n38, 212n2 Bible, 22–24, 53. See also Leviticus; Revelations , Book of Blackness, 47–50; Ellison’s uses of, 92–93; in Go Tell It on the Mountain, 87; and language of opposition, 171, 178, 182, 184, 194n23; and minoritization, 50; and queerness in story of Noah, Ham, and Canaan, 72–73; in Suddenly Last Summer, 103, 106. See also African Americans; Queer(ness); Race Bone, Robert A., 197n29 “Born that way” argument. See Homosexual (ity), biological determinism and immutability Boulder, Colorado 119 Brady, Mary Pat, 187n23 Bransford, Stephen, 122 Brown, Bill, 91–92 Brown, Wendy, 51–52, 57, 71, 194n18, 194n20 Brown v. Board of Education, 124–26, 179, 203n13, 210n37 Buck-Morss, Susan, 32, 188n15 Bull, Chris, 125 Burke, Kenneth, 22, 48, 65–69, 84 Burt, Nancy V., 199n43 Bush, George H. W., 29 Bush, George W., 8, 180 Butler, Judith, 9, 20, 32, 45, 159, 164, 176, 178, 188n14, 189n21 Byrd, James, Jr., 40 Cable, George Washington, 99 Califia, Pat, 214n21 Cane (Toomer), 18, 79–81, 113 Cannibalism, 103–9, 206n49 Carlyle, Thomas, 88 Catachresis, 45–46 Catholic Church, and sex scandals, 19, 153–60, 213n11 Catholicism, 27, 188n10 Caudill, Edward, 208n27 Chain, Alexandra, 212n8 Chauncey, George, 89, 132, 164, 202n7 Children. See Family Chow, Rey, 86 Christian Coalition, 4 Christian fundamentalism. See Fundamentalism Christianity: and Americanness, 14; claims of persecution, 5, 186n12; and education, 124–27; queerness and conversion , 74–75. See also Christian rhetoric ; Christian right; Disestablishment; Fundamentalism Christian rhetoric: and African Americans , 16; and American nationality, 27, 205n35, 212n2; and analogy between race and queerness, 13; and authority, 22; in Cane, 79–81; as cover story for sexuality, 111; and security, 22, 26; and sovereignty, 15, 52, 130; in Suddenly INDEX 218 Last Summer, 106–7; in work of Baldwin , 16, 56 Christian right, 10, 41; and anxieties about race, 116–17; and conservatives in United States, 185n5; and disestablishment , 128...