#12788. Queer rumors: Protestant ministers, unnatural deeds, and church censure in the twentieth-century United States

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Over the course of the twentieth century, dozens of conservative Protestant ministers were accused of sexual deviance - including instances of same-sex acts and attractions. Protestant churches, in turn, experimented with employing various tactics to undermine and challenge such accusations. From silencing and secrecy to public censure and disassociation, denominational bodies labored to undermine evidence of queerness among their ministers. This essay surveys a one-hundred-year history of religious groups and institutions attempts at dealing with the uncomfortable but persistent allegations of not-quite-straightness among their leaders. This story accounts for how conservative Protestantism has been able to maintain its claims to a particular kind of sexual morality even as religious leaders themselves have repeatedly jeopardized this project. Copyright

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