This compassion reproduces the sexual ideology of the Christian right and absolves Christian conservatives from responsibility for stigma and other forms of harm to postabortive and same-sex attracted people. |a "Focusing on ex-gay ministries geared to helping same-sex attracted people resist their sexuality and postabortion ministries dedicated to leading women who have had an abortion to repent that decision, Cynthia Burack argues that both are motivated and characterized by a strain of compassion that is particular to Christian conservatism rather than a bias and hatred toward sexual minorities and sexually active women. |a "Exposes how ex-gay and post-abortion ministries operate on a shared system of thought and analyzes their social implications"-Provided by publisher. |a Includes bibliographical references and index.
|a SUNY series in queer politics and cultures Jeff Mann will read a short segment of a personal essay examining the ways that queer nonconformists brought up in fundamentalist-steeped Appalachia are shaped by and react to that often hostile element in their native culture.|b sexuality, compassion, and the Christian right / He’ll also consider to what extent, if any, counter-arguments about what is natural can affect the Christian Right's anti-gay position.
He’ll explore where fundamentalists' explanations and arguments about "the natural" fit into the Christian Right's ideology, including its role in relation to conservative readings of scripture. Richard Parmer will discuss the advantages and risks of using a nature-based argument for GLBTQ political projects, both generally and in Appalachia. She’ll look at recent film productions from AMI, the Appalachian Media Institute, for clues as to how young queers in Kentucky navigate the troubles and triumphs of claiming normalcy in a place long depicted as America’s deviant backwoods. Carol Mason will extend scholarship on “the rural queer” by examining the potentials and pitfalls of LGTBQ people claiming normalcy in Appalachia. The second phenomenon is the movement’s own internal struggle over change of sexual orientation, a struggle that was well underway by 2011 when Exodus came to West Virginia. The first is the formation of a compassionate Christian conservative agenda that combines commitments to helping LGB people and pregnant/post-abortive women repent and renounce their sinful identities.
Cynthia Burack will address two phenomena that are related to the ex-gay movement of recent years.
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