Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0814742645, Hardcover)

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"In this dynamic legal context the publication of Janet R. Jakobsen and Ann Pellegrini's Love the Sin offers a smart, but controversial, intervention."
— Journal of the American Academy of Religion

"Important . . . a fresh way to argue for gay rights and sexual freedom."
—Boston Phoenix

"Love the Sin is a progressive contribution to discussions about sexual and religious freedom in a country where we find less of both than most politicians, religious thinkers, media moralists, and "average Americans" want to admit."
—Gay Today

"A brilliant book, one that can move public conversations about sexual, racial, and religious difference beyond present assumptions and impasses. Love the Sin suggests that religion can become the ground for sexual freedom rather than the justification for sexual repression."
—Margaret R. Miles, author of Seeing and Believing: Religion and Values in the Movies

"This impressive book provides analytical and strategic insights on the central obstacle to gay and lesbian freedom today: sexuality's treatment by religion. The authors' accessible voice, wide-ranging and original synthesis, and deep knowledge make the experience of reading this book a pleasure."
—Urvashi Vaid, former director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Policy Institute

"Jakobsen and Pellegrini argue convincingly that movements for ethnic, racial, gender, and sexual justice would be well served by using the paradigm of religious freedom instead of biological determinism to make the case for social change. Love the Sin is required reading for all the sinners to whom the title euphemistically refers, and for everyone who dreams of a more just society."
—Rabbi Rebecca Alpert, author of Like Bread on the Seder Plate

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