An All-Encompassing Parallel Reality
• Sodom & Gomorrah Show
Michelle Goldberg, who has just written Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism, interviewed at Gothamist:
In some ways, though, that gave me a distorted view of politicized Christianity. Years later, after I had finished graduate school, I did a series about the ex-gay movement — a movement that purports to “cure” gay men through the power of Christ. I found I had a lot of sympathy for the people I met — they were good, earnest men and women in a hellish situation, believing their only choices were trying to will themselves straight or exiling themselves form their families, communities and religion. Hanging out with them was my introduction to the “mainstream” Christian right — an all-encompassing parallel reality with its own pop culture, revisionist history, news media, education system and pseudo-scientific infrastructure.