Tolerance and the Christian Right

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1. Nancy Ammerman, “North American Protestant Fundamentalism,” in Fundamentalisms Observed, ed. Martin Marty and R. Scott Appley, The Fundamentalism Project (Chicago: Chicago UP, 1991); William Dinges, “Roman Catholic Traditionalism and Activist Conservatism in the United States,” in Fundamentalisms Observed, ed. Martin Marty and R. Scott Appleby, The Fundamentalism Project (Chicago: Chicago UP, 1991).

2. Anne Bathurst Gilson, The Battle for American's Families: A Feminist Response to the Religious Right (Cleveland, OH: The Pilgrim Press, 1999) p. 73; Dan Wakefield, The Hijacking of Jesus: How the Religious Right Distorts Christianity and Promotes Violence and Hate (New York: Avalon, 2006), 138–39.

3. Michael Cobb, God Hates Fags: The Rhetorics of Religious Violence (New York: NYU Press, 2006), 122–23.

4. Michelle Goldberg, Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism (New York: Norton, 2006), 25.

5. Bob Waliszewski and Bob Smithouser. “Confusing Tolerance and Love.” Adapted from “What's Up With Today's Entertainment?: Raising Media-Wise Teens,” a Dare 2 Dig Deeper Parents Series, http://www.pluggedinonline.com/discernment (accessed August 31, 2006).

6. “Excerpt from Santorum Interview,” http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2003-04-23 (accessed August 24, 2006).

7. Gayle Rubin, “Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality,” in Pleasure and Danger: Exploring Female Sexuality, ed. Carole S. Vance (New York: Routledge, 1984), 267–319; Cobb 153ff.

8. Janet Jakobsen and Anne Pellegrini, Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance (Boston: Beacon 2004), 46.

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Sharon Crowley

Sharon Crowley is professor of English at Arizona Sate University. In addition to her most recent book, Toward a Civil Discourse: Rhetoric and Fundamentalism, she is author of Composition in the University, The Methodical Memory, and Ancient Rhetorics for Contemporary Students