Pray The Gay Away: Monday November 19, 1-2 p.m.

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Maryland made history on Election Day by becoming, with Maine and Washington, the first states to make same-sex marriage legal by ballot. Nine states and the District of Columbia now allow gay and lesbian couples to be married. But there’s still a very different story in the South. Author Bernadette Barton says the Bible Belt is full of gays and lesbians trying to live ordinary, spiritual lives, but the conventions of small town life, Southern attitudes and the political power of Christian institutions smother them with both passive and active homophobia. Barton is the author of, “Pray the Gay Away: The Extraordinary Lives of Bible Belt Gays.”