Reforming Sodom: Protestants and the Rise of Gay Rights

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By Heather R. White *07

Published Jan. 21, 2016

In Reforming Sodom: Protestants and the Rise of Gay Rights, Heather R. White *07 challenges the usual picture of perennial adversaries with a new narrative about America’s religious and sexual past. She recovers the forgotten history of liberal Protestants’ role on both sides of the debates over orthodoxy and sexual identity.

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