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Praying to be skinny and straight

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Fatness and gayness have a few things in common: They are both highly charged social issues that can anger people in ways few other things can. To many people, they both represent a sinful inability to control urges -- in the case of fat folks, to eat food, and in the case of gay people, to have sex. In evangelical circles, however, fatness and gayness are not just stigmatized, they are actively fought.

In her eloquent new book, "Seeking the Straight and Narrow: Weight Loss and Sexual Reorientation in Evangelical America," Lynne Gerber examines the ways these two separate issues interact in that most morally stringent segment of American culture.
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OpedNews volunteer from 2005 to 2013.

Amanda Lang was a wonderful member of the Opednews team, and the first volunteer editor, for a good number of years being a senior editor. She passed away summer 2014.

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