Dail Caller - It’s no secret that public opinion on the issue of same sex marriage is rapidly changing: a clear majority of Americans now support it, a development unthinkable just a few years ago. Even a large number of Republicans are now in support, including over 60 percent of Republican Millennials, those under 30.
Over 40 percent of evangelical Millennials also support it, and there are even growing cracks in the wall of opposition among social conservative and evangelical leaders. One of the latest to throw in the towel is Carmen Fowler LaBerge, a former Presbyterian minister who heads the Presbyterian Lay Committee, a group of conservative congregations who broke away from the Presbyterian Church after it voted last year to ordain noncelibate gay clergy.
LaBerge recently told the Washington Times that she believes there is now a consensus within the evangelical movement that the culture war on traditional marriage has been lost, and the overwhelming support for same-sex marriage among younger voters would seem to indicate that. Freely admitting that the marriage battle has been won by supporters of SSM, she and fellow evangelicals are turning their attention to a different battle, the one to protect their own religious freedoms, including keeping their churches free of any mandates involving gay rights or same-sex marriage. Although in her view the Bible is clear on homosexuality and traditional marriage, she nonetheless concedes that “I don’t live in a country that’s governed by that document; I live in a country that’s governed by the Constitution.”
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