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While Huckabee is busy plotting how to further define gay people as violators of \u201cNatural Law,\u201d Southern Baptist Theological Seminary president Albert Mohler is acceding to the inevitable.\u00a0 This comes from his interview on Jim Daly\u2019s Focus on the Family radio show, via Right Wing Watch<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Daly: Do you think, as we look at those demographics and the polling data and all the other things, as the Christian community, is this something that is inevitable? I know this is a tough question here on Christian radio but I think it\u2019s time to start talking about what if.<\/p>\n

Mohler: Well Jim I appreciate your candor in that because I think a lot of Christian conservatives are going to try to deny the obvious. I mean, when we\u2019re talking about same-sex marriage, we\u2019re talking about something that is already legal in one form or another in basically twelve states. So whether they call it marriage, as they do in a few states, or marriage lite as they have now in twelve states, the reality is that a good number of Americans are living where they\u2019re already facing not just the inevitably, but the reality, of same-sex marriage. I think it\u2019s clear that something like same-sex marriage \u2013 indeed, almost exactly what we would envision by that \u2013 is going to become normalized, legalized, and recognized in the culture. It\u2019s time for Christians to start thinking about how we\u2019re going to deal with that.<\/p>\n

I think in the United States, Evangelical Christians in particular, have kind of grown accustomed to having our beliefs and moral convictions and ways of life supported by the state, by the larger culture and we\u2019re going to have to learn what it means to live faithfully as Christians when we do not have those supports. You know, it\u2019s one thing to live believing that you\u2019re in the majority position \u2013 everything comes pretty easy that way \u2026<\/p>\n

Daly: A Christian nation.<\/p>\n

Mohler: That\u2019s right. But when you live in a situation where we\u2019re clearly a minority holding to certain convictions that the larger culture either doesn\u2019t hold or doesn\u2019t hold tenaciously or as very important, we\u2019re going to find out just where we stand as Christians.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That\u2019s the spirit, Albert!\u00a0 You should definitely start getting used to it.\u00a0 Secularism is going to rule the day and you and your friends can curl up in your churches and wait for the second coming.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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