God Hates: Westboro Baptist Church, American Nationalism, and the Religious Right
Rebecca Barrett-Fox
University of Kansas Press, 2016
296 pages
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God Hates: Westboro Baptist Church, American Nationalism, and the Religious Right is a historical and ethnographic account of American’s most infamously homophobic church. God Hates places the church on the broader American religious landscape, arguing that it is more like other conservative churches than they might prefer to admit—but that such churches benefit from Westboro’s outrageous pickets by using the small Topeka church as a foil that makes their own anti-gay teachings, rhetoric, and political activity look more reasonable.
