Adam and Steve
"Adam and Steve" is a phrase that originated from a conservative Christian slogan "God made Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve", intended to concisely summarize Judeo-Christian Bible-based arguments against homosexual practices or homosexuality.[1] Among other things, it implies that the natural way of life for humanity is illustrated by the Biblical account of the creation of human beings as a male-female pair.
The phrase appeared, on a protest sign, as early as 1977, as mentioned in a New York Times news service report about a November 19 rally in Houston that year.[2] Two years later, Jerry Falwell gave the phrase wider circulation in a Christianity Today report of a press conference he had given.[3]
In popular culture
- Paul Rudnick's play The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told – a title parodying The Greatest Story Ever Told – pokes fun at the idea by retelling the creation story with the main characters "Adam" and "Steve". The story goes on to include good pals, and lesbians, "Jane" and "Mabel", instead of Cain and Abel, the Biblical sons of Adam and Eve.[4]
- An eponymous film, Adam & Steve, as well as a film with the punning title Adam & Yves, "Yves" being a French male name pronounced like "Eve" in English.
- Television producer Danny Arnold planned a television series in 1979 called Adam and Yves based on the film La Cage aux Folles which drew its title in part from this phrase.
- Megapuss; Devendra Banhart's band; has a song entitled "Adam & Steve".
- The Tiger Lillies band has a song entitled "Adam and Steve" on their album "Seven Deadly Sins".
- In the Robot Chicken episode Werewolf vs. Unicorn, a skit has God directing Adam to name all the creatures of the earth, but the process is interrupted by his stereotypically effeminate gay friend Steve showing up and christening some of the creatures which have names that can be double entendres, like the peacock and the swallow.
See also
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References
- ^ Clarke, Victoria (September–October 2001). "What about the children? arguments against lesbian and gay parenting", Women's Studies International Forums 24 (5): 555–570.
- ^ Judy Klemesrud (November 20, 1977). "Equal Rights Plan and Abortion Are Opposed by 15,000 at Rally". New York Times. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10F12F73F581A718DDDA90A94D9415B878BF1D3. Retrieved 2008-12-26.
- ^ David L. Balch, Homosexuality, Science, and the "plain Sense" of Scripture, (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2000) p22
- ^ Hurwitt, Robert (May 21, 2001). "Adam and Steve's adventures in paradise", San Francisco Chronicle, p. E4.
Further reading
- Katha Pollitt, Adam and Steve — Together at Last, The Nation, 15 December 2003.