Meanings
- derogatoryoffensiveA phrase indicating the notion that only heterosexual relations are valid.
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BIBLICAL fundamentalists often dismiss gay people by claiming that "God made Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve." This remark is probably the full extent of fundamentalist repartee. About three years ago, I decided to take these hard-hearted folks at their words: What if God did make Adam and Steve, and the first lesbians as well, Jane and Mabel?
1998 December 6, Paul Rudnick, “THEATER; If Sex Has Lost Its Shock Value, How About God?”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 May 2015
Origin
From the Abrahamic Adam and Eve narrative, with Steve, a male name, chosen for the rhyme. Popularized by televangelist Jerry Falwell in the late 1970s United States.
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Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Adam%20and%20Eve%2C%20not%20Adam%20and%20Steve
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