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Jay Michaelson

Jay Michaelson, formerly the religious liberty fellow at PRA, is the recently named Vice President of social justice programs at the Arcus Foundation.

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Religion Dispatches

Hysterical Heretical Hollywood Humanism: The Theology of The Adjustment Bureau

Can Matt Damon’s love trump God’s Will? Does it have to?
Jay Michaelson
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Religion Dispatches

The Tea Party are Sodomites

Reading the story Sodom as being about homosexuality is like reading the story of an axe-murderer and saying it’s about an axe.
Jay Michaelson
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Religion Dispatches

Sex and Civilization: The Body as Battleground

Today, we often are told that the hysterical ravings of the New Christian Right (NCR) are a pathological homophobia, or perhaps a displaced and sublimated yearning for homoeroticism. Doubtless both play a role, but I want to suggest that homosexuality does threaten civilization, when viewed from a certain perspective, and that it has been seen this way since biblical times.
Jay Michaelson
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