Andrew Sullivan has an excellent round up of reaction focusing on the religious aspects of President Obama’s historic endorsement of marriage equality.
This item by Nicholas Beaudrot, “Destroying the Christian Brand“, is especially insightful, in light of the data in this item by Rachel Held Evans.
Beaudrot writes:
This should really serve as a wake up call to church leaders. The once near-universal brand of American Christianity is being associated with an ever-shrinking size of the American public. Like Burger King and Axe Body Spray, you may wake up one day and find that the overwhelming majority of the public has simply tuned out everything you have to say. Now, it’s always possible that the leaders of the major American churches may want it this way. But for those who don’t, the window of opportunity where people might be willing to consider a more relevant form of modern Christianity is closing.