Phil Zuckerman is an associate professor of sociology at Pitzer College in Claremont, CA.

He is the author most recently of Society Without God: What the Least Religious Nations can tell us About Contentment (New York University Press, 2008).

He lives in Claremont, California, with his wife and three kids.

Blog Entries by Phil Zuckerman

The Religious Support Behind Proposition 8

Posted November 20, 2008 | 11:16 AM (EST)


Proposition 8 passed because of religious folk. There is no question about it. Church-going Black Americans, tithe-paying Mormons, mass-attending Latinos, and Evangelical whites all joined forces in "protecting marriage." The underlying reason religious people voted to revoke from gays and lesbians the legal right to marry is doggedly theological: God...

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