God Hates Fags – The Rhetorics of Religious Violence Cobb Paperback

God Hates FagsThe Rhetorics of Religious Violence\nAuthor(s): Michael Cobb\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: New York University Press, United States\nImprint: New York University Press\nISBN-13: 9780814716694, 978-0814716694\nSynopsis\n2007 Choice Outstanding Academic Title\n At the funeral of Matthew Shepardthe young Wyoming man brutally murdered for being gaythe Reverend Fred Phelps led his parishioners in protest, displaying signs with slogans like \""Matt Shepard rots in Hell,\"" \""Fags Die God Laughs,\"" and \""God Hates Fags.\"" In counter-protest, activists launched an \""angel action,\"" dressing in angel costumes, with seven-foot high wings, and creating a visible barrier so one would not have to see the hateful signs.\n Though long thought of as one of the most virulently anti-gay genres of contemporary American politics and culture, in God Hates Fags, Michael Cobb maintains that religious discourses have curiously figured as the most potent and pervasive forms of queer expression a.