This business of Uganda proposing a law to make homosexuality a capital crime after a visit by some US Christians associated with a Washington DC fundamentalist religious group has me reading a book called, The Family, Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power (or something like that). The book is about an organization in Washington DC interested in infusing US national politics and foreign policy with a version of socially conservative fundamentalist religion.
It's got me thinking about the whole issue of being 'born again'. Theoretically, a gun controlling, pro-choice, gay, feminist, atheistic naturalistic euthanizing libertarian could attend a Billy Graham rally, feel the spirit at the altar call and get 'born again' and become a gun loving anti-abortion, homophobic, sexist, anti-euthanizing supernaturalistic theist authoritarian in an instant. Obviously, that does not happen. Yet, people do get 'born again' in American religion. What exactly is going on with this phenomenon? What change is actually occurring? What kinds of people are getting 'born again' and what is happening in their social and mental worlds?

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