From Neighbors to Outcasts: Evangelical Gay Activism in the Late 1970s

IF 0.4 2区 历史学 Q1 HISTORY Journal of the History of Sexuality Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI:10.7560/jhs31303
W. Stell
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T h e y k n e w T h e T i m e wa s r i p e , even though much of the fruit was bitter. A few weeks after the repeal of Dade County’s gay rights ordinance in June 1977, Letha Scanzoni and Virginia Ramey Mollenkott mailed cover letters to twelve publishers for their book manuscript Is the Homosexual My Neighbor? Another Christian View. Published by Harper & Row in the spring of 1978, the book opened with references to Anita Bryant’s Save Our Children campaign in Dade County and portrayed its own message of neighborly love as a necessary alternative to Bryant’s stance. Scanzoni and Mollenkott knew that the Dade County vote might seem “representative of a basic attitude in this country.” In the late 1970s, as antigay and antifeminist sentiment swelled both within and beyond evangelicalism, public appeals to “the family”—from Bryant’s Save Our Children campaign to President Jimmy Carter’s plans for the White House Conference on Families—became more frequent and more potent. Even so, Scanzoni and Mollenkott believed that “many Christian people take a more moderate view of the issue.” Moreover, they believed that “the more moderate majority” included many evangelicals. Thus, their book was aimed, as their cover letter to Harper & Row put it, “particularly toward those in the evangelical tradition.”1
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从邻居到弃儿:20世纪70年代末的福音派同性恋激进主义
虽然大部分的水果都是苦的,但我还是把它放在了我的肚子里。1977年6月,戴德县的同性恋权利条例被废除,几周后,莱莎·斯坎佐尼和维吉尼亚·雷米·莫伦科特给12家出版商寄去了封面信,要求出版他们的书《同性恋是我的邻居吗?》另一个基督教观点。这本书于1978年春天由Harper & Row出版社出版,开篇提到了安妮塔·布莱恩特在戴德县的“拯救我们的孩子”运动,并描绘了自己的邻里之爱信息,作为科比立场的必要选择。斯坎佐尼和莫伦科特知道,戴德县的投票似乎“代表了这个国家的一种基本态度”。在20世纪70年代后期,随着反同性恋和反女权主义情绪在福音派内外的膨胀,公众对“家庭”的呼吁——从布莱恩特的“拯救我们的孩子”运动到吉米·卡特总统的白宫家庭会议计划——变得更加频繁和有力。即便如此,斯坎佐尼和莫伦科特认为,“许多基督徒对这个问题的看法更为温和。”此外,他们认为“更温和的大多数”包括许多福音派教徒。因此,正如他们写给《Harper & Row》杂志的求职信所言,他们的书的目标是“特别是那些信奉福音派传统的人”
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