You're Either For Me, or You're With Me

There's a bit too much god-talk in David Levithan's 2006 young-adult novel Wide Awake, and I can't tell whether there's any irony in it. There should be.Here's the deal. It's the middle of the 21st century, and America has been through some tough times: more terrorist attacks, wars, and a Greater Depression. By a very narrow margin the US has just elected its first gay Jewish president.