Max Perry Mueller

MAX PERRY MUELLER {maxabelg.com} is associate editor of Religion & Politics. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Committee on the Study of Religion at Harvard University. His writing has appeared in the Journal of Mormon History, The Harvard Divinity School Bulletin, The New Republic, Slate, and Religion Dispatches. He holds a bachelor of arts from Carleton College, in addition to a master of theological studies from Harvard University.

Undie Running on the Line between Church and State

Articles/Essays – Volume 45, No. 2

They were wearing next to nothing. Thongs, boy-shorts, string bikinis. A lacy Victoria’s Secret red and black nightgown seemed downright conservative. Pro-gay slogans—“Marriage Equality!” and “Down with Prop 8!”—were plastered on chests, legs, butt cheeks, cheeks. “Judge not lest ye be judged” read one billboard/lower back, scrawled in what might have been red lipstick. Tattoo ink had rendered many of these mostly twenty- and thirty something-year-old bodies more permanent canvases.