Moral Combat: How Sex Divided American Christians and Fractured American Politics

Gay marriage, transgender rights, birth control: sex is at the heart of some of the most divisive political issues of our age. R. Marie Griffith has been writing about modern American religion and its impact on our political life since God’s Daughters, which explored how gender plays out in evangelical Christian communities. Her upcoming book, Moral Combat, starts when liberal Protestants began sparring with fundamentalists and Catholics on issues from obscenity to sex education in the 1920s and takes us to today's ferocious and intractable culture wars.

This program is presented in partnership with The Center for Humanities, Washington University.