{"id":2472,"date":"2012-01-06T21:59:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-06T21:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2012\/01\/re-occupy-tradition-the-history-of-faith-and-lgbt-rights.html"},"modified":"2012-01-06T21:59:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-06T21:59:00","slug":"re-occupy-tradition-the-history-of-faith-and-lgbt-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2012\/01\/re-occupy-tradition-the-history-of-faith-and-lgbt-rights.html","title":{"rendered":"Re-Occupy “Tradition”: The History Of Faith And LGBT Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
Watching the latest Republican tap-dance to court \u201cvalues voters,\u201d it\u2019s clear, once again, that \u201creligion\u201d and \u201ctradition\u201d are unsubtle code words for anti-LGBT politics. Faith-based political organizations like Iowa\u2019s\u00a0The Family Leader<\/a>\u00a0have so thoroughly occupied the language of faith and values, that even critics of their politics assume that traditional Christianity goes hand in hand with conservative sexual and gender politics. According to the way many people understand the politics of religion and sexuality, the more \u201ctraditional\u201d a person\u2019s faith, the more directly that faith demands opposition to LGBT rights.<\/div>\n
So why is anti-homosexuality such an important litmus test for today\u2019s values voters? That tradition owes more to relatively recent spokespersons like\u00a0Anita Bryant<\/a>\u00a0and Jerry Falwell than it does to a millennium of anti-homosexual Christian teaching. The mid-1970s marked an important shift in the political face of Christianity, as Anita Bryant, Southern Baptist actress and beauty queen, stepped in as spokesperson for a Florida-based campaign to roll back gay rights. Thanks in part to Bryant and the \u201cSave Our Children Campaign,\u201d gay and lesbian residents of Florida still face laws and policies that consign them to second-class citizenship. Save Our Children also went on to target gay rights measures in localities across the United States, and it kickstarted the anti-gay rhetoric of a galvanizing New Right.<\/div>\n
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Watching the latest Republican tap-dance to court \u201cvalues voters,\u201d it\u2019s clear, once again, that \u201creligion\u201d and \u201ctradition\u201d are unsubtle code words for anti-LGBT politics. Faith-based political organizations like Iowa\u2019s\u00a0The Family Leader\u00a0have so thoroughly occupied the language of faith and values, that even critics of their politics assume that traditional Christianity goes hand in hand with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2251,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nRe-Occupy "Tradition": The History Of Faith And LGBT Rights<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watching the latest Republican tap-dance to court "values voters," it's clear, once again, that "religion" and "tradition" are unsubtle code words for\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2012\/01\/re-occupy-tradition-the-history-of-faith-and-lgbt-rights.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Re-Occupy "Tradition": The History Of Faith And LGBT Rights\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Watching the latest Republican tap-dance to court "values voters," it's clear, once again, that "religion" and "tradition" are unsubtle code words for\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2012\/01\/re-occupy-tradition-the-history-of-faith-and-lgbt-rights.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Rhetoric Race and Religion\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2012-01-06T21:59:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Andre E. 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