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Love the Sin SEXUAL CULTURES: New Directions from the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies General Editors: José Esteban Muñoz and Ann Pellegrini Times Square Red, Times Square Blue Samuel R. Delany Private Affairs: Critical Ventures in the Culture of Social Relations Phillip Brian Harper In Your Face: 9 Sexual Studies Mandy Merck Tropics of Desire: Interventions from Queer Latino America José Quiroga Murdering Masculinities: Fantasies of Gender and Violence in the American Crime Novel Greg Forter Our Monica, Ourselves: The Clinton Affair and the National Interest Edited by Lauren Berlant and Lisa Duggan Black Gay Man: Essays Robert Reid-Pharr Foreword by Samuel R. Delany Passing: Identity and Interpretation in Sexuality, Race, and Religion Edited by María Carla Sánchez and Linda Schlossberg The Queerest Art: Essays on Lesbian and Gay Theater Edited by Alisa Solomon and Framji Minwalla Queer Globalizations: Citizenship and the Afterlife of Colonialism Edited by Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé and Martin F. Manalansan IV Queer Latinidad: Identity Practices, Discursive Spaces Juana María Rodríguez Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance Janet R. Jakobsen and Ann Pellegrini Love the Sin Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance JANET R. JAKOBSEN AND ANN PELLEGRINI a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS New York and London NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS New York and London © 2003 by New York University All rights reserved Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Jakobsen, Janet R., 1960– Love the Sin : sexual regulation and the limits of religious tolerance / Janet R. Jakobsen and Ann Pellegrini. p. cm. — (Sexual cultures) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8147-4264-5 (alk. paper) 1. Homosexuality—Religious aspects—Christianity. 2. Gay rights—Religious aspects—Christianity. 3. Homosexuality—Government policy—United States. 4. Gay rights—United States. I. Pellegrini, Ann, 1964– II. Title. III. Series. BR115.H6 J34 2003 291.1'7835766'0973—dc21 2002012273 New York University Press books are printed on acid-free paper, and their binding materials are chosen for strength and durability. Manufactured in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 For those we love, in the fullness and complexity of all that means. Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Why Religion, Why Sex? 1 1 Getting Religion 19 2 What’s Wrong with Tolerance? 45 3 Not Born That Way 75 4 The Free Exercise of Sex 103 5 Valuing Sex 127 Conclusion: Open Endings, Dreaming America 149 Notes 153 Index 169 About the Authors 175 vii Acknowledgments This book marks a different kind of writing for both of us. Not only is it collabora- tive, when collaborative articles and books in the humanities are a rarity (especially in comparison to the sciences and social sciences), but it also represents something of a departure from the densely footnoted work we have produced in our more tra- ditionally academic writing. We have not, however, left our scholarly personae (or footnotes) behind altogether. Rather, we hope in these pages to connect the ques- tions we have asked, both individually and together, in sometimes arcane aca- demic circles to ongoing public debates about religious and sexual freedom in the United States. Inthisbook,wearguefortheproductionofnewvaluesthroughvariousforms of intimacy. These intimacies and the values they enable do not come from nowhere,butemergeinpartoutofsocialmovements.Wewouldevensaythatso- cial movements, such as the African American civil rights movement, and women’s and gay liberation, are among the conditions of possibility for the new intimaciesandvalueschampionedinthesepages.Weaccordinglywanttobegin bythankingthosesocialmovementsthathavetaughtusjusthowmuchcancome outofthinkingandworkingtogethertowardadifferentkindoffuture. This book is the product, then, not just of the many conversations and debates between the two of us, but also of the many generous contributions of colleagues, friends, interlocutors, and opponents along the way. We lay out their contributions in some detail here so as to acknowledge the breadth of activity—and hence the depth of our gratitude—that is encapsulated in the term “collaborative writing.” Our own conversations began long before we undertook the actual writing of this book. The ideas that became Love the Sinwere first articulated in a panel that ix
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