Homophobia

In chapter two of Goldberg's Kingdom Coming, Goldberg explains the homophobia that exists withing the mega churches and how this homophobia was used in politics, especially in the 2004 same sex marriage proposition. The message that homosexuality was becoming a threat to families was being stated by conservatives, "Needing to see their foe as equal to their threat , they exaggerate its strength", and therefore charge against homosexuality with all their strength (Goldberg 69). As a result of trying to cure homosexuality, Goldberg states that many Christian conservatives believe that people can come out of homosexuality , but the people that are born into evangelical communities where homosexuality is seen as a sin long for belonging and therefore go through preparative therapy hoping to become what their families want them to become (Goldberg76). Unfortunately there has been no evidence that these therapies actually help homosexuals leave their sexuality behind and become hetero sexual.
Mega churches, as stated by Goldberg, have situated themselves in exurbs and because of this, they "fill the spiritual and social void, providing atomized residents instant community" (Goldberg 58). Because a community is built it becomes easier for these mega churches to spread their message, in this case that homosexuality is a sin and as stated by Goldberg this is a pattern that repeats itself in the culture of wars, "When religious conservatives are proven wrong, their faith in their righteousness only grows along with their hatred of conspiracy they see arrayed against them"(Goldberg 78). In the article Consequences of Same-Sex Marriage Will be Far Reaching , by Don Wildmon, the founder for the American Family Association, interviewed Mary Ann Glendon, a Learned Hand Professor of Law at Harvard about same-sex marriage and she stated, “The economic and social costs of this radical social experiment. Astonishingly, in the media coverage of this issue, next to nothing has been said about what this new special preference would cost the rest of society in terms of taxes and insurances premiums.” She states a strong bias against homosexuality and believes that homosexuality goes against the law of God.
Hopefully in the near future, Christians will no longer see homosexuality as a sin and accept it. It is in Goldberg's chapter two that we find that those that are heavily against homosexuality are the religious people, mostly of Christian denominations and sects.

Works cited
Goldberg, Michelle. "Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism". W.W. Norton and Company, Inc. New York, NY. 2007

Wildmon, Don. "Consequences of same-sex 'marriage' will be far reaching." American Family Association Journal: American Family Association. 2006. Web: 20 October 2009