A Turn to the Rights:

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" A Turn to the Rights: "
Stephen Hunt

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1082436
Doc. No	:	LA126065
Call No	:	‭10.1163/187103211X592596‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Stephen Hunt
Title & Author	:	A Turn to the Rights: [Article] : UK Conservative Christian Lobby Groups and the ‘Gay Debate’\ Stephen Hunt
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Religion Human Rights
Date	:	2011
Volume/ Issue Number	:	6/3
Page No	:	291–313
Abstract	:	The extension of non-heterosexual rights in largely liberal democratic contexts and confirmed in wider international conventions poses a challenge to Christian churches which historically condemned homosexuality and other sexual ‘variations’ on the basis of religious conviction. The stance taken by contemporary churches on these rights issues now diverge considerably. This article, however, considers the entrenched position of conservative Christian factions in the UK that have intensified their levels of political mobilisation at a time when they are drawn into the political arena through the implications of non-heterosexual rights in both the churches and the secular world. The article explores the way in which these cadres are forced to engage with the rhetoric of rights as an integral part of their oppositional stance, while attempting to negate the foundational basis of non-heterosexual rights. It will conclude with a discussion of how such developments connect with human rights theory. The extension of non-heterosexual rights in largely liberal democratic contexts and confirmed in wider international conventions poses a challenge to Christian churches which historically condemned homosexuality and other sexual ‘variations’ on the basis of religious conviction. The stance taken by contemporary churches on these rights issues now diverge considerably. This article, however, considers the entrenched position of conservative Christian factions in the UK that have intensified their levels of political mobilisation at a time when they are drawn into the political arena through the implications of non-heterosexual rights in both the churches and the secular world. The article explores the way in which these cadres are forced to engage with the rhetoric of rights as an integral part of their oppositional stance, while attempting to negate the foundational basis of non-heterosexual rights. It will conclude with a discussion of how such developments connect with human rights theory.
Descriptor	:	Christianity
Descriptor	:	evangelicals
Descriptor	:	homosexuals
Descriptor	:	human rights theory
Descriptor	:	LGBT rights
Descriptor	:	political mobilisation
Descriptor	:	religious freedom
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/187103211X592596‬