Article title: The politics of shame in the motivation to virtue: Lessons from the
shame, pride, and humility experiences of LGBT conservative
Christians and their allies
Authors: Tobin, T. W. and Moon, D.
Journal: Journal of Moral Education
Bibliometrics: Volume 48, Number 1, pages 109-125
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03057240.2018.1534088
In the final version of the above article errors were introduced in the placement and order of notes 2-4, and in the respondent’s heart rate on p.114.
These errors have been corrected as follows:
Notes 2-4 placed correctly in the text and corrected in the endnote section:
Page 121
2. Cisgender means agreeing with the sex assignment given at birth; not transgender.
3. We leave open the possibility that anger may be a morally appropriate and psychologically
healthy response in extreme conditions of structural injustice or oppression that routinely assault their personhood and psyche (hooks, 1995; Lugones, 2003).
4. Alicia Crosby, of the CFI, assisted us by interviewing LGBTQI people of color who might
not have wished to be interviewed by white women. After being briefed on our interviewing
methods by Moon, she conducted 40 of our 113 interviews, averaging 60 minutes.
5. As a qualitative sociologist, Moon trained Tobin in these methods.
Page 114 – corrected paragraph
Many LGBT participants speak of experiencing shame’s effects as toxic, poisoning
not just relationships, but their mental and even physical health. Some speak of
depression and attempts at suicide, and others speak of surprising physical consequences,
including a black respondent in her twenties being hospitalized with
uncontrollable asthma attacks, a healthy mixed-race respondent in her early twenties
being hospitalized with a heart rate of 19, and a former Nashville Christian music
superstar contracting a rare and life-threatening auto-immune disorder (Strudwick,
2014), all of which doctors could only attribute to the intense stress caused by their
shame around gender and sexuality and the fear that they would lose their places in the
church.