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<p>3togo, very interesting link (#409) about the anti-gay conservative religious community’s response to the rulings this week. They seem chastened.</p>

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Many evangelical pastors have seen homosexuality as a distant culture-war battle that’s fought far from the doors of the churches, Moore said.</p>

<p>Now, it’s as close as their front pews.</p>

<p>“I think it’s not so much that churches haven’t wanted to talk about it,” he said, “but they haven’t recognized how much the culture has changed around them.”</p>

<p>The first step, said Moore, is learning to defend traditional marriage without demonizing gays and lesbians.

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<p>That will be a refreshing change, the not-demonizing part. </p>

<p>It seems that the gay-haters are even being tuned out by their own flocks, especially young Christians:</p>

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When Christian researchers at the Barna Group asked Americans aged 16-29 what words best describe Christianity, the top response was “anti-homosexual.” That was true of more than 90 percent of non-Christians and 80 percent of churchgoers, according to Barna. . .</p>

<p>“The shrill angry voices of retrenchment are no longer getting a broad hearing either in the culture at large or in the evangelical community,” Merritt said.

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