Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2009
Excerpt
By connecting the ideological maneuvering of the New Right, strong religion, and straight supremacy, this Essay ties together three projects of great current interest. First, as a study in ideology, it shows how the "Ideology Snatchers" of the New Right co-opted the liberal register by reframing it so as to neutralize its political valence. Second, I point out the strength of the religious undertow is in the current battle of ideas about the professional culture of academe. Third, I show that at the heart of strong religion is a constitutive investment in normative heterosexuality as a family trait. It puts the sects on a crash course with the future. Small wonder that gay-rights advances activate the "trigger-backlash cycle" like no other social trigger (not even abortion rights, their next closest kin).
Recommended Citation
Jose M. Gabilondo,
When God Hates: How Liberal Guilt Lets the New Right Get Away With Murder
Wake Forest L. Rev.
(2009).
Available at: https://ecollections.law.fiu.edu/faculty_publications/83
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