Why Are ‘Customers’ So Angry About This New Book on Marriage and Religious Freedom?

The Daily Signal ^ | July 19, 2015 | Marguerite Bowling

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Is the debate about marriage over after the Supreme Court’s June decision to redefine marriage in all fifty states? That’s what some Amazon.com reviewers are insisting after a new book was released last week.

The book, “Truth Overruled: The Future of Marriage and Religious Freedom,” is a roadmap from Ryan Anderson, a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation, on how the conservative movement can move forward in promoting marriage and protecting religious freedom after the Supreme Court’s ruling.

“I wrote this book for all Americans. For those who disagree with me, to at least understand the viewpoint of roughly half the nation,” Anderson told The Daily Signal. “For those who agree, to better understand the nature of the debate and the reasons supporting the truth. For those undecided, to get one thoughtful take on what the future should hold.”

As of Saturday, Anderson’s book has received over 120 reviews. It average rank is 3.4 of 5 stars with 40 percent of reviewers leaving a 1 star rating.

How’d this come about? Opponents worked social media outlets to orchestrate a campaign of negative reviews of Anderson’s book, often attacking the author personally.

As of Sunday, only one of the 49 one-star reviews was a “verified purchase” reviews, which gives potential customers authenticity that the reviewer has purchased the material. By contrast, 35 of the 76 5-star reviews are from verified purchasers. Several of the 1-star reviews insist the “debate is over” and that Anderson’s claims are “a deadly defense of dying worldview.”

A Twitter user known as Str8Grandmother, a LGBT activist, urged her followers to leave “HONEST” reviews.

[Intolerant in NJ]

Freud WHAT?...Freud should be added to the list that was abuilding with the likes of Alinsky, Oprah, and Goebbels of those who had contributed to the coarsening of discourse and civility in this culture, re Opponents worked social media outlets to orchestrate a campaign of negative reviews of Anderson’s book, often attacking the author personally...don't know if he was burned at the stake but if so he was probably well on the way to dying of mouth cancer anyway, if I remember correctly - sometimes a good cigar really is more than a good cigar.....

[dr_lew]

Freud should be added to the list that was abuilding with the likes of Alinsky, Oprah, and Goebbels of those who had contributed to the coarsening of discourse and civility in this culture

That is to me a very mysterious equation. Freud was a hardnosed rationalist, and I believe he had penetrating insight into the nature and workings of the human mind, which of course makes me a big fan, but by no means a worshipper of him.

I am at no pains to defend him against the many deprecations that are heaped on him, no doubt deserved to one degree or another, yet I'm not swayed by these from my appreciation of his thinking.