View the Table of Contents. Read the Introduction.In this dynamic
legal context the publication of Janet R. Jakobsen and Ann
Pellegrini''s Love the Sin offers a smart, but controversial,
intervention. -- Journal of the American Academy of
ReligionImportant... a fresh way to argue for gay rights and sexual
freedom.--Boston PhoenixLove the Sin is a progressive contribution
to discussions about sexual and religious freedom in a country
where we find less of both than most politicians, religious
thinkers, media moralists, and average Americans want to
admit.--Gay TodayA brilliant book, one that can move public
conversations about sexual, racial, and religious difference beyond
present assumptions and impasses. Love the Sin suggests that
religion can become the ground for sexual freedom rather than the
justification for sexual repression.--Margaret R. Miles, author of
Seeing and Believing: Religion and Values in the MoviesThis
impressive book provides analytical and strategic insights on the
central obstacle to gay and lesbian freedom today: sexuality''s
treatment by religion. The authors'' accessible voice, wide-ranging
and original synthesis, and deep knowledge make the experience of
reading this book a pleasure.--Urvashi Vaid, former director of the
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Policy InstituteJakobsen and
Pellegrini argue convincingly that movements for ethnic, racial,
gender, and sexual justice would be well served by using the
paradigm of religious freedom instead of biological determinism to
make the case for social change. Love the Sin is required reading
for all the sinners to whom the title euphemistically refers, and
for everyone who dreams of a more just society.--RabbiRebecca
Alpert, author of Like Bread on the Seder PlateGives us vital
language to escape both the trap of toleration and the seduction of
assimilation. Not afraid to challenge the certainties of the
secular left on religion, nor willing to settle for a narrow
version of gay and lesbian rights, Love the Sin presents a new
vision of American sexual and religious freedom.--Laura Levitt,
Director of Jewish Studies, Temple UniversityAs ambitious, feisty,
and exciting as any new passion, Love the Sin takes its readers on
a compelling ride across the volatile landscape of religion and sex
in American public life. The authors not only provoke and
stimulate, guide and elucidate, but they redefine freedom and
democracy as values for our sex lives as well as our sexual
politics.--Lisa Duggan, coauthor of Sex Wars: Sexual Dissent and
Political CultureJakobsen and Pellegrini do a nice job of showing
how the love-the-sinner/hate-the- sin tradition falls dramatically
short of the higher aspiration to tolerance.--Stephen Pomper,
Washington MonthlyThe authors of this short but succinct study
explore the connection between the traditions of Christianity and
the political and social regulation of sexuality in America.--
Library JournalLike any trumpet call to pull down the walls, this
book serves its purpose by giving the GLBT community a new focus
and even a renewed idealism.--The Gay & Lesbian ReviewWe cannot
afford to lose the battle for nonpartisan sex education in the
schools, sexual freedom for all citizens or a host of other
endangered human rights. Love the Sin is essential reading for
anyone who cares about these issues.--Women''s Review of BooksLove
the Sin is a book that is relevant for anyoneinterested in
sexology, religion, and politics. It has the potential to provoke
and important dialogue amoung religious institutions, politicians
at every level of government, community leader, and families about
what it means to live up to the American ideal. -- Journal of
History of SexualitySex. Religion. There is no denying that these
two subjects are among the most provocative in American public
life. Even the constitutional principle of church-state separation
seems to give way when it comes to sex: the Supreme Court draws on
theology as readily as it draws on cas
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