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56. The Lambeth Commission on Communion, The Windsor Report 2004 (London: The Anglican Communion Office, 2004), 50, http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/18_10_04_windsor_report.pdf.
57. The story of Robinson’s exclusion from Lambeth, and his decision to come to London anyway to speak to people at the edges, is rivetingly told in a documentary film: Macky Alston and Sandra Itkoff, Love Free or Die, directed by Macky Alston (Dallas, TX: Reveal Productions, 2012).
58. Doug Theuner, quoted in Adams, Going to Heaven, 276.
59. Gene Robinson, In the Eye of the Storm: Swept to the Center by God (New York: Seabury, 2008), 25, 40.
60. Lawrence v. Texas, 539 U.S. 558 (2003).
61. Rick Santorum, “Americans Must Preserve Institution of Marriage,” USA Today, July 9, 2003.
62. Alan Sears and Craig Osten, The Homosexual Agenda: Exposing the Principal Threat to Religious Freedom Today (Nashville: Broadman & Holman Books, 2003), 2–3, 96.
63. “Excerpts From the Massachusetts Ruling,” New York Times, November 19, 2003, A24.
64. Robinson, God Believes in Love, 100, 110.
65. Dennis Di Mauro, “Gene Robinson Makes the Case for Gay Marriage: A Review of God Believes in Love: Straight Talk About Gay Marriage,” First Things, March 11, 2014: https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2014/03/gene-robinson-makes-the-case-for-gay-marriage; “Retired Bishop Gene Robinson On Being Gay and Loving God,” Fresh Air, January 10, 2013, http://www.npr.org/2013/01/14/169066917/retired-bishop-gene-robinson-on-being-gay-and-loving-god.
66. Justice Samuel Alito, cited in Amy Davidson, “What Each Justice Said About Gay Marriage,” New Yorker, March 28, 2013.
67. Amanda Terkel, Christine Conetta, and Elise Foley, “Battle for Marriage Equality Unfolds Outside the Supreme Court,” Huffington Post, April 28, 2015, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/28/supreme-court-marriage_n_7165076.html.
68. Obergefell v. Hodges, 576 U.S. ___(2015), https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/14pdf/14-556_3204.pdf.
69. President Barack Obama quoted in Adam Liptak, “Supreme Court Ruling Makes Same-Sex Marriage a Right Nationwide,” New York Times, June 26, 2015.
70. George Conger, “The Episcopal Church Approves Religious Weddings for Gay Couples After Controversial Debate,” Washington Post, July 1, 2015.
71. Todd Starnes, “Franklin Graham: Christians Should Prepare for Persecution,” Christian Examiner, June 26, 2015, http://www.christianexaminer.com/article/franklin.graham.christians.should.prepare.for.persecution/49166.htm.
72. Daly quoted in John Stonestreet, “Christian Leaders Respond to Obergefell v. Hodges: A Symposium,” June 26, 2015, http://www.breakpoint.org/bpcommentaries/entry/12/27686.
73. “Supreme Court Decision on Marriage ‘A Tragic Error’ Says President of Catholic Bishops’ Conference,” United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, June 26, 2015, http://www.usccb.org/news/2015/15-103.cfm.
74. Catholic News Service, “Biden Called ‘Counter-Witness’ to Church Teaching for Presiding at Wedding,” Catholic News Service, August 5, 2016, http://www.catholicnews.com/services/englishnews/2016/biden-called-counter-witness-to-church-teaching-for-presiding-at-wedding.cfm. Biden’s home bishop in the diocese of Wilmington, Delaware, concurred with the statement; see “Bishop Malooly’s Statement Regarding Biden Officiating at Same-Sex Marriage,” Dialog, August 8, 2016, http://thedialog.org/bishop-maloolys-statement-regarding-biden-officiating-at-same-sex-marriage/.
75. Robinson, In the Eye of the Storm, 3.
76. Interview with Robinson.
77. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes, Inc., Case No. 14-13710 (D.Mich., 2016).
EPILOGUE
1. Inés San Martin, “Pope Calls Gender Theory a ‘Global War’ Against the Family,” Crux, October 1, 2016, https://cruxnow.com/global-church/2016/10/01/pope-calls-gender-theory-global-war-family.
2. Dean Obeidallah, “Behind Trump, the GOP Really Is Becoming the Racist Party,” Daily Beast, August 31, 2015, http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/08/31/behind-trump-the-gop-really-is-becoming-the-racist-party.html; and Bill Morlin, “Radio Show Host with Racist, Anti-Semitic Legacy Given Press Credentials for Trump Rally,” Southern Poverty Law Center, Hatewatch, March 2, 2016, https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2016/03/02/radio-show-host-racist-anti-semitic-legacy-given-press-credentials-trump-rally.
3. See Rush Limbaugh, “They’re Worried Silly Over Mrs. Clinton,” The Rush Limbaugh Show, May 28, 2015, http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2015/05/28/they_re_worried_silly_over_mrs_clinton. See Paul Thompson, “EXCLUSIVE: ‘Don’t Let Bill Back in the White House, He Abused Women and He’ll Do It Again.’ Paula Jones Warns Against Voting for Hillary—Because She Also Lied About Sex Case Which Almost Cost Him Presidency,” Daily Mail, May 28, 2015; Lindsay Kimble, “Bill Clinton Sexual Harassment Accuser Paula Jones Wants to Attend Presidential Debate to Make Hillary ‘Nervous,’” People, September 26, 2016.
4. Rachel Held Evans, quoted in Sarah Pulliam Bailey, “The Deep Disgust for Hillary Clinton That Drives So Many Evangelicals to Support Trump,” Washington Post, October 9, 2016. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2016/10/09/the-deep-disgust-for-hillary-clinton-that-drives-so-many-evangelicals-to-support-trump/?utm_term=.656a191ad7e6.
5. “Hillary Clinton: My Creed Is ‘Do All the Good You Can in All the Ways You Can,’” YouTube video, :54, posted by “LoneWolf & The Three Miskadoggies,” September 30, 2016, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEE7pCa1PK8.
6. “Clinton Offers Sympathies to Those Affected in Dallas,” Hillary Clinton Speeches, July 8, 2016, https://hillaryspeeches.com/2016/07/08/clinton-offers-sympathies-to-those-affect-in-dallas.
7. Max Perry Mueller, “The Christian Worldview of Mike Pence,” Religion & Politics, October 10, 2016, http://religionandpolitics.org/2016/10/10/the-christian-worldview-of-mike-pence/.
8. Rachel Held Evans, quoted in Pulliam Bailey, “The Deep Disgust for Hillary Clinton.”
9. See Claire Landsbaum, “The Most Misogynistic Gear Spotted at Trump Rallies,” New York, October 12, 2016; Michelle Goldberg and Chelsea Hassler, “A Children’s Treasury of Misogyny at the Republican National Convention,” Slate, July 20, 2016, http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/07/20/misogyny_is_alive_and_well_at_the_republican_national_convention.html; and Adele M. Stan, “At Trump Rallies from Rust Belt to Bible Belt, Threats of Violence Combine with Nostalgia for White Man’s Glory,” Alternet, October 25, 2016, http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/trump-rallies-south-and-rust-belt.
10. See Claire Cohen, “Donald Trump Sexism Tracker: Every Offensive Comment in One Place,” Telegraph, January 20, 2017.
11. Joan C. Williams, interviewed in “What Politicians and Pundits Get Wrong About White Working Class Voters,” 1A, National Public Radio, May 22, 2017, http://www.npr.org/podcasts/510316/1a.
INDEX
abortion, xi, xiii, xviii, xix, 3, 5, 6, 11, 27, 37, 39, 150, 153, 191, 244, 251, 252, 253, 271, 313, 315, 318
abortifacients, 207, 215
arrest of ministers concerning, 219–220
before late nineteenth century, 206–207
conditions for legal, 202–203, 207–208, 211, 218, 219, 228
conference on illegal, 161–162, 208–209
constitutional amendment banning, 226, 228
deaths/complications from illegal, 207, 208, 217
and ensoulment, 229, 234
fetus as person, 226, 237
first legal abortion clinic in New York State, 220
ministers supporting, 216 (see also Clergy Consultation Service on Abortion)
morality of, 206, 215, 216, 220, 231–232, 234, 235
as murder, 202, 203, 209, 210, 218, 220, 221, 229, 273
numbers supporting, 201
as punishment of women, 217, 220
violence concerning, 238
Abortion (Lader), 215, 221
Abortion in the United States (Calderone, ed.), 162
> Adams, Richard, 284–285
adultery, x, 19, 40, 62, 260, 302, 311
African Americans, x, xi, xvii, 12, 33–35, 84, 92, 103, 217, 241, 304, 320
black women slaves, 86
and Clarence Thomas/Anita Hill Senate Judiciary Committee hearings, 248
feminists, 248
lesbians, 281
writers, 172, 173
See also lynchings; racial issues
Afro-American newspaper, 33–34
After Strange Gods: A Primer of Modern Heresy (Eliot), 77
AIDS, 223, 244, 287, 292–293, 294, 298–299
Alito, Samuel, 305
Allen, Gary, 180–181
America (Jesuit publication), 125, 211
American Birth Control League, 9, 24, 27, 28, 34, 161
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), 216, 295
American Council on Education, 106
American Jewish Committee, 102
American Medical Association, 156, 162–163, 207, 219
American Opinion magazine, 180
Americans Against Abortion, 201
American Social Hygiene Association (ASHA), 131–132, 158
Amsterdam News, 34
Anaheim, California, 177–178
Anderson, Leonard, 124
Anderson, Marian, 95, 96
Andrew, Mark, 279, 297
Angelou, Maya, 246
Anglican Church in North America, 276
Anthropology for the People: A Refutation of the Theory of the Adamic Origin of All Races, 89
Aristotle, 229
Army of God, 238
art, 55–56
Art of Marriage, The (LaHaye), 289
Atlanta Daily World, 35
Atlantic Monthly, 30
atheism, viiii, 18, 228, 289, 320
Avery, Reverend Ward, 130
baby boom, 121, 159–160
Bailey, Derrick Sherwin, 147, 148–149
Baker, Ray Stannard, 92
Baker, Richard John, 283–284, 286
Baldwin, James, 173
Banning, Kendall, 11
Barnard, Chester, 106–107
Barth, Reverend Joseph, 133
bathrooms, xiii
Bauer, Gary, 251, 252
Belgium, 193–194
Benedict, Ruth, xix, 84, 85 (photo), 97–104, 113, 115–116, 117, 190
Bennett, Robert, 267
Berry-Myers, Phyllis, 252
Bethune, Mary McLeod, 94–95
Bible, 86, 87, 89, 93, 97, 118, 130, 140, 143, 149, 170, 173, 283, 285, 290, 294, 314
“Bible and Dr. Kinsey, The” (Graham), 141–142
Bibliography on Young People’s Relationships, Marriage and Family Life, A (Federal Council of Churches), 44
Biden, Joe, 241, 308
Bilbo, Theodore, 96, 110, 111, 112 (photo), 113, 114, 115, 116, 213
birth control, xii, xviii, xix, 67, 120, 150, 156, 161, 162, 167, 197, 208, 210–211, 221, 238
and abortion, 215
birth control movement, 1, 157
birth control pills, 155, 189, 250–251
as method of genocide, 35
See also contraception; First American Birth Control Conference; rhythm method; under Catholicism
Birth Control Review, 8, 34
Birth of a Nation, The, xvi
Bishop, Shelton Hale, 34
Blackboard Power (Drake), 172–174
Blagden, Mabel Whitney, 10
Bliven, Bruce, 129
Block, Karl Morgan, 134, 145
Blumenthal, Al, 214, 216
Blumenthal, George, 44
Boas, Franz, 99–100, 102–103, 111, 114, 115, 117
Bob Jones University, 119
Bogage, Rabbi Lewis, 219
Bond, Julian, 246
Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, 42
Boozer, Thelma Berlack, 34
Borgese, G. A., 115
Bork, Robert, 253, 270
Boston, 51, 52, 67–68
Boulder, Colorado, 284
boycotts, 64, 66, 172, 295
Bradford, William, 57
Breasted, Mary, 165
Breen, Joseph, 64, 65 (photo), 66
Brennan, William, 81
Brentano, Lowell, 11
Brown, Edmund, 168
Brown, Helen Gurley, 155
Brownmiller, Susan, 220, 258–259
Brown v. Board of Education, 117
Bryant, Anita, 290, 291 (photo)
Bryson, Joseph, 109
Buchanan, James, 280
Buchanan, Patrick, 232, 293
Buck, Reverend Wesley J., 130
Burke, James F., 119
Burke, Father John, 27
Burkhart, Roy, 131
Bush, George H. W., 234, 241, 246, 256
Bush, George W., 271, 295, 303
Bushnell, Robert T., 51, 52
Buxton, Dr. C. Lee, 167
Cabell, James Branch, 58
Calderone, Mary Steichen, xix, 151, 156 (photo), 157, 160–169, 173, 174, 178, 179, 180, 197–198, 200, 208, 218
leaving Planned Parenthood, 163, 189
marriage of, 161
Protestant collaborators of, 182–183
reaching out to Catholics, 186–196
sexual conservatism of, 184
California, 168, 177, 288, 291
State Supreme Court, 304
Calvin, Ira, 114–115
Cameron, Paul, 293
Campbell, Donovan, 266
Campbell, E. Fay, 124–125
Campbell, Helen, 257
Can You Name Them? (Boas), 102–103
Carmen, Arlene, 213, 217, 220, 223, 224
Carpenter, Edward, 19, 37–38, 69
Carroll, Charles, 90
Carter, Jimmy, 228, 259
Cartwright, Samuel, 87–88
Casablanca (film), 64
Catholic Action, 65
Catholicism, xi, 9, 46, 276, 297, 307, 308
and abortion rights, 201, 202, 203, 209–212, 216, 221, 225–239
anti-Catholicism, 15, 25–26, 29, 30, 45, 237
and birth control, 2, 5, 7–8, 14, 15–16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 25, 27, 36, 38–39, 186–196, 210–211, 221, 236, 238
Casti Connubii encyclical, 38–39
Catholic vote for Donald Trump, 315
Catholic women seeking abortion, 221
and censorship, 50, 52, 56, 60, 62, 64–66, 67
collaboration with Protestants, 67–68
excommunication, 225, 237
Humanae Vitae encyclical, 195
Index Librorum Prohibitorum, 56, 66
Jesuits, 7, 78, 125, 188, 189, 190, 191, 210
and Kinsey reports, 126–127, 135, 136
number of Catholics in America, 23
Paulists, 25, 188, 192, 193
Persona Humana declaration, 288–289
Second Vatican Council, 193
Catholic Marriage Manual, The (Kelly), 187
Catholic World, 25 Catholics for a Free Choice (CFFC), 205 (photo), 229–230, 231, 233–234, 235–236, 237, 238
advertisement in New York Times, 234–235, 236
Catholics for Choice. See Catholics for a Free Choice
Catt, Carrie Chapman, xv
CCS. See Clergy Consultation Service on Abortion
celibacy, 133
censorship, xix, 4, 49–50, 51, 55, 81
of films, 60–65
first trial in United States concerning, 57
history of literary censorship, 56–59
resistance to, 66–67
See also Lawrence, D. H.; obscenity
Center for Reproductive and Sexual Health (New York), 220
CFFC. See Catholics for a Free Choice
Chapple, John, 135
Chase, Canon William Sheafe, 18–19, 60
Chicago Defender, 103
children, 14, 18, 31, 33, 46, 61, 63, 118, 153, 164, 174, 186, 190, 237, 270–271, 292, 320
children’s rights, 42, 43
of enslaved women, 86
, 87
goodness of, 167
of prostitutes, 223, 224
and same-sex marriage, 288
unwanted, 217
white/black children mixing, 95
See also sex education
Christian Action Network, 265
Christian Broadcasting Network, 245, 265
Christian Century, 19, 63, 67, 131
Christian Coalition, 251, 252–253, 265
Christian Crusade, 168–169, 170, 172, 178, 179, 181, 197, 198, 199
Christian Crusade newsletter/magazine, 169, 170, 171, 173, 205
Christian Defense Coalition, 264, 265
Christianity, 74, 75, 78, 79, 88, 128–129, 199, 225
Christian liberals/conservatives, 116–117, 136, 137, 157, 158, 170, 182–183, 185–186, 200, 244, 264, 273, 264, 274, 275, 288, 290, 314, 315 (see also religious right)
consensus/split in, ix, x, xix, 1, 4, 36, 121, 122, 131, 133, 140, 143, 205, 211, 239, 273, 275, 276–277, 299, 302, 306, 308, 311, 315, 320–321
generational divide in, 144
Reduced Christianity, 38
See also Bible; Catholicism; Episcopal Church; evangelicals; Protestants; Southern Baptists
Christianity and Crisis magazine, 129, 144, 152
Christianity Today, 250
Christian View of Sexual Behavior, The: A Reaction to the Kinsey Report (Pittenger), 152–153
Christian View on Segregation, A (Gillespie), 117–118
Christians and the Crisis in Sex Morality (Genné and Genné), 151
Citizens’ Councils, 111, 117, 118
civil rights, x, 94, 95, 96–97, 116, 119, 153, 214, 219, 223, 246, 258, 294, 299
Civil Rights Act, 259, 260–261
civil unions, 304
Civil War, 83, 87, 88, 89
Clergy Consultation Service on Abortion (CCS), 212, 216–221, 222, 223, 229, 238
“Clergy Statement on Abortion Law Reform and Consultation Service on Abortion,” 217
Cleveland, Grover, xv
Clinchy, Russell J., 41–42
Clinton, Bill, 241–242, 243, 244, 255, 263, 265, 266, 268, 270 (photo), 271, 294, 295, 313
impeachment of, 262, 269, 270, 273
See also sexual harassment: Bill Clinton/Paula Jones case
Clinton, Hillary, 312, 313–318
Coffee, Rabbi Rudolph I., 11
Cold War, 121, 154
Cole, William Graham, 182–183
Colson, Chuck, 250
Commonweal, 27, 42, 190