How Trump and the Christian Right Saved LGBTI Human Rights
A Religious Freedom Mystery
1st Edition
Published on 1. August 2022
258 pages
978-1-4384-8884-4 (ISBN)
Description
Traces the Trump administration's surprising support for LGBTI human rights abroad to Trump's indifference and the cynicism and political interests of Christian conservative elites.
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English
Place of publication
Basel/Berlin/Boston
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Digital original
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Reflowable
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ISBN-13
978-1-4384-8884-4 (9781438488844)
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Cynthia Burack
How Trump and the Christian Right Saved LGBTI Human Rights
A Religious Freedom Mystery
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02/2023
State University of New York Press
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Cynthia Burack
How Trump and the Christian Right Saved LGBTI Human Rights
A Religious Freedom Mystery
Book
08/2022
State University of New York Press
€108.00
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Cynthia Burack is Professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the Ohio State University. Her many books include Because We Are Human: Contesting US Support for Gender and Sexuality Human Rights Abroad, also published by SUNY Press.
Content
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Setting the Table for SOGI Human Rights
From Obama to Trump
SOGI Yesterday
The Players
Defining My Terms
A Map of the Book
1. The Christian Right as Anti-SOGI Interest Group
Losing in the US and Looking Abroad
SOGI Human Rights vs. Religious Freedom
What Lies Beneath
The Wages of Spin
2. His Christian Conservatives
Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom, 2018
Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom, 2019
Commission on Unalienable Rights, Part 1
The 68th Annual National Prayer Breakfast
Commission on Unalienable Rights, Part 2
3. The Human Rights of Tillerson and Pompeo: Who Was Minding the SOGI Store?
Straight Talks
Secretary Tillerson
Secretary Pompeo
Different Blokes for Different Folks
4. On the Trail of SOGI in the Time of Trump
SOGI Supply
Public Diplomacy
Diplomacy
Foreign Assistance
And Yet SOGI Persists
5. The US Abroad on SOGI Human Rights in the Time of Trump
SOGI Demand
ASOGIHRO
Good Enough Queers
Conclusion: More Thoughts Than Prayers
On Not Even Trying
On Knowing Your Audience
Appendix A: Secretary Rex Tillerson, "Remarks to US Department of State Employees"
Appendix B: Secretary Mike Pompeo, "Being a Christian Leader"
Notes
Index
Introduction: Setting the Table for SOGI Human Rights
From Obama to Trump
SOGI Yesterday
The Players
Defining My Terms
A Map of the Book
1. The Christian Right as Anti-SOGI Interest Group
Losing in the US and Looking Abroad
SOGI Human Rights vs. Religious Freedom
What Lies Beneath
The Wages of Spin
2. His Christian Conservatives
Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom, 2018
Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom, 2019
Commission on Unalienable Rights, Part 1
The 68th Annual National Prayer Breakfast
Commission on Unalienable Rights, Part 2
3. The Human Rights of Tillerson and Pompeo: Who Was Minding the SOGI Store?
Straight Talks
Secretary Tillerson
Secretary Pompeo
Different Blokes for Different Folks
4. On the Trail of SOGI in the Time of Trump
SOGI Supply
Public Diplomacy
Diplomacy
Foreign Assistance
And Yet SOGI Persists
5. The US Abroad on SOGI Human Rights in the Time of Trump
SOGI Demand
ASOGIHRO
Good Enough Queers
Conclusion: More Thoughts Than Prayers
On Not Even Trying
On Knowing Your Audience
Appendix A: Secretary Rex Tillerson, "Remarks to US Department of State Employees"
Appendix B: Secretary Mike Pompeo, "Being a Christian Leader"
Notes
Index
