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Across the country, evangelical Christians are voicing frustration and puzzlement that there has not been more of a political outcry since May 17, when Massachusetts became the first state to issue same-sex marriage licenses.

Evangelical leaders had predicted that a chorus of righteous anger would rise up out of churches from coast to coast and overwhelm Congress with letters, e-mails and phone calls in support of a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.

But that has not happened.

"Standing on Capitol Hill listening, you don't hear anything," said Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, one of the country's most vigorous Christian advocacy groups.

WaPo
Gee, maybe they just realized that two chicks getting married in Boston won't bring about the end of days. Maybe they have observed that when they "intuitively understand" that gay marriage "endangers the bedrock of our society," they weren't really intuitively understanding anything, but giving in to fearmongers and prejudice and their lesser angels.

Update: From The Journal today...

LOONEYVILLE, W.VA.(ed: Fitting, no?)--The Christian Coalition has fallen far from its glory days as a pro-Republican fighting force in the 1990s. But now Pastor J. Allen Fine has a new political weapon.

"Gay marriage is societal suicide," says Mr. Fine, a religious broadcaster who was recently installed as state director of the coalition's West Virginia chapter. "We were asked on our radio program, 'Is sodomy still a sin?' It brought in so many calls and the dish of the fax machine overflowed."

The same thing is happening in Ohio, another electoral battleground where Christian Coalition stalwarts are seeking political revival. "People see that there's something greater at stake here with gay marriage," says Rev. Dallas Billington at the Akron Baptist Temple in Akron, Ohio. "It's a crucial time in the cultural war, and I'm telling people to 'Vote your Bible.' "

I don't know if the fact that they are at least willing to admit they are fighting a culture war mitigates the fact that they actually think they are fighting a war. Intellectual honesty is at least a little refreshing in the face of the same old fearmongering.

The fact of the matter, is adlutery is "still a sin" too, but I don't hear these folks coming down on Newt or Rush or any other famous GOP adulterers either. The fact of the matter is, the gay community is such an easy target to inspire hate with by people making a power grab (that's all it is). Frankly, its the same people who will tell you that homosexuality is a "choice" that will latch onto it as an issue in the culture war PRECISELY because it is alien. Every damned one of these people has felt the temptation for adultery. If homosexuality was a "choice" they would have to admit they were tempted to participate in it. It is, however, the fact that it *is* so very alien to them that makes it such an easy issue to lightening rod with.