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Contents:

• PRAY THE GAY AWAY : THE EXTRAORDARY LIV OF BIBLE BELT GAYS
• PRAY THE GAY AWAY: THE EXTRAORDARY LIV OF BIBLE BELT GAYS, BY BERNADETTE BARTONPRAY THE GAY AWAY: THE EXTRAORDARY LIV OF BIBLE BELT GAYS, BY BERNADETTE BARTONPRAY THE GAY AWAY: THE EXTRAORDARY LIV OF BIBLE BELT GAYS, BY BERNADETTE BARTONPRAY THE GAY AWAY: THE EXTRAORDARY LIV OF BIBLE BELT GAYS, BY BERNADETTE BARTONPRAY THE GAY AWAY: THE EXTRAORDARY LIV OF BIBLE BELT GAYS, BY BERNADETTE BARTON
• PRAY THE GAY AWAY
• PRAY THE GAY AWAY
• PRAY THE GAY AWAY – PART I
• PRAY THE GAY AWAY: THE EXTRAORDARY LIV OF BIBLE BELT GAYS
• PRAY THE GAY AWAY - THE EXTRAORDARY LIV OF BIBLE BELT GAYS

PRAY THE GAY AWAY : THE EXTRAORDARY LIV OF BIBLE BELT GAYS

239 -265) and xAcknowledgments -- Introductn: " the ey of the lord" -- Wele to the Bible belt -- "My parents disowned me": fay rejectn -- "God would tell on me": losg their relign -- "They don't know who I am": the toxic closet -- "Gog straight": the ex-gay movement -- "Prepare to believe": the creatn mm -- "The oppose of fah is fear": stctn and transformatn -- "God n love all of me": livg the life -- What the future holds -- Not -- Referenc -- Inx -- About the thor. Inclus biblgraphil referenc and xAcknowledgments -- Introductn: " the ey of the lord" -- Wele to the Bible belt -- "My parents disowned me": fay rejectn -- "God would tell on me": losg their relign -- "They don't know who I am": the toxic closet -- "Gog straight": the ex-gay movement -- "Prepare to believe": the creatn mm -- "The oppose of fah is fear": stctn and transformatn -- "God n love all of me": livg the life -- What the future holds -- Not -- Referenc -- Inx -- About the thor. Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Intersex and Queer (LGBTIQ) liftyl are most general s pathologized as beg a transgrsn, spirual viance among the nservative and fundamentalist Bible-leralist church, particularly the Pentestal-Charismatic church.

Notably, among youth who already intify as, or thk they may be homosexual or bisexual, rearch has found that fay rejectn and excln, as well as bullyg by peers, rrelat highly wh a range of high-risk behavrs and out rangg om tancy to substance abe to attempts at suici. Furthermore, many gay and lbian people suffer om strs due to ill treatment by a homophobic society, pecially when nonted wh relig nmnatn. Relig homophobic speech may e a polarizatn of society as people unnscly absorb the hidn agenda that is tend to show that people who do not nform to the heterosexual norm are ferr and should be shunned.

Rearch and observatn have found that gay and lbian people are referred to as “ttable” or “unnatural”, which uld nstute relig hate speech.

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Due to what is believed to be a religly fed homophobia, the LGBTIQ church members and activists have started prottg their church. In other stanc, some closeted LGBTIQ members Pentestal-Charismatic church are experiencg heightened homonegativy when anti-gay sentiments are uttered. In the Bible Belt, ’s mon to see bumper stickers that claim One Man + One Woman = Marriage, church billboards that mand one to “Get right wh J, ” letters to the edor parg gay marriage to marryg one’s dog, and nightly news about homophobic attacks om the Fay Foundatn.

PRAY THE GAY AWAY

While some areas of the Un Stat have ma tremendo progrs securg rights for gay people, Bible Belt stat lag behd. Not only do most Bible Belt gays lack domtic partner benefs, lbians and gay men n still be fired om some plac of employment many regns of the Bible Belt for beg a homosexual. In Pray the Gay Away, Bernatte Barton argu that nventns of small town life, l which ern Southern manners, and the power wield by Christian stutns serve as a foundatn for both passive and active homophobia the Bible Belt.

PRAY THE GAY AWAY

She explor how nservative Christian iology reproduc homophobic attus and shar how Bible Belt gays negotiate the attus their daily liv. Drawg on the remarkable stori of Bible Belt gays, Barton brgs to the fore their thoughts, experienc and hard-won sights to explore the ont l of our natnal culture war over marriage, fay, hate crim, and equal rights. Pray the Gay Away illumat their liv as both foot soldiers and sualti the battle for gay rights.

Barton, a profsor of soclogy and women's studi at Morehead State Universy, explor the toll of homophobia on the liv of Bible Belt gays, and the ways which they rpond to that adversy.

Dcribg the Bible Belt as a regn of "pulsory Christiany, " Barton (Stripped: Insi the Liv of Exotic Dancers) argu that the fluence of Christian stutns on secular life creat "a foundatn for passive and active homophobia. " Barton draws on a trove of ethnographic data, cludg -pth terviews wh Bible Belt gays, viss to the Creatn Mm and a lol megachurch, attendance at an Exod Internatnal nference for ex-gays, and her own experienc as an openly lbian profsor.

PRAY THE GAY AWAY – PART I

As Barton not, gay youth are overreprented among homels youth and at high risk of suici.

Barton (Author of Pray the Gay Away). 2013 Falist for the Lambda Lerary Awards, LGBT Studi tegoryBarton argu that nventnal Southern manners and relig stutns provi a foundatn for homophobia the Bible BeltIn the Bible Belt, 's mon to see bumper stickers that claim One Man + One Woman = Marriage, church billboards that mand one to "Get right wh J, " letters to the edor parg gay marriage to marryg one's dog, and nightly news about homophobic attacks om the Fay Foundatn. Pray the Gay Away illumat their liv as both foot soldiers and sualti the battle for gay rights.

The Ex-Gay Movement. There is a new book out tled, Pray the Gay Away: The Extraordary Liv of Bible Belt Gays, by Bernatte Barton.

PRAY THE GAY AWAY: THE EXTRAORDARY LIV OF BIBLE BELT GAYS

E., Baptist, Pentestal, and Church of Christ–and grew up fai which homosexualy was equently nounced.

PRAY THE GAY AWAY - THE EXTRAORDARY LIV OF BIBLE BELT GAYS

Consequently, participants’ inty stggl more often took place unr the shadow of a preacher’s voice thunrg floridly about ‘homosexuals’ and parents proclaimg that ‘any child of md that is gay is ad to me’ at the dner table than an LGBT center. In the Introductn Barton opens the book by reuntg an exchange wh a neighbor who troduced her to some of the regnal flavor by referrg to homosexualy as an “abomatn” the ey of God.

In discsg some of the nsequenc of sharg her gay inty wh her mother, one woman shared: “I am cut off.

One woman relled: “The preacher would preach on homosexualy. It is te that Barton reunts her time visg a fah-based, ex-gay mistry nference the Chigo suburbs, but that was ls about the Bible belt and more about the ex-gay movement, which she then discs as a part of the fabric of the regn.