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Summary: Ferocious Romance What My Encounters With the Right Wing Tau
Review: I'm a member of one of the churches mentioned in this book. I am both perplexed and bewildered at how a church with Democratic ministers and congregates who voted repeatedly for President Clinton, can be considered "Right Wing" as the title of Ms. Minkowitz book would suggest. Therefore, at the outset, I realized that factually this book had problems. The bizarre account of the author's sexual thoughts while a female soloist was singing a classic gospel hymn are disturbing. Her jest regarding laying a woman pastor down on the floor and cutting her up with a bread knife is alarming. My advice is to put your [money] to a better purpose.
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Summary: Provocative comparison of Religious Right and GLBT movements
Review: Journalist Minkowitz goes undercover in different Religious Right groups (including the Promise Keepers and a Christian ladies' makeover seminar) and compares the desires she sees expressed in these groups to those she sees expressed among her own queer Left. She starts out seeing the Religious Right as enemies, and without changing her fundamental political views, she discovers that desires for connection, unconditional love, ecstasy, transcendence and transformation shape both of these opposing movements. A fascinating and interesting read!
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Summary: FACTUALLY IN ERROR
Review: Thank you Donna! Your book was so brave and so smart
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Summary: FACTUALLY IN ERROR
Review: This book has gross errors. The woman's organization to which the author refers, is not what she made it out to be at all. What she actually attended was a church. The church invited a woman's ministry from else where in the country to come in and, both speak to the woman who attend the church and to do a teaching that might benefit woman as they seek employment. One reviewer accepted the author's perverse depiction and reaction to this event and called what really was a church as "a kaffeeklatsch of Christian women." Factual errors lead to the spreading of misinformation. Another disturbing thing is that she day dreamed of taking a knife and cutting a woman minister's body up into little pieces.
Also in error is the idea that she was so courageous that she walked into the far right's territory. The author isn't as brave as one might think: she had her parents standing on either side of her!Also, the event which she attended was in a church where many of the ministers and leadership voted for Clinton! This she depicts as the "far right?"
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