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The Decline of the Culture Wars

By ADF Alliance Alert

Martin E. Marty writes at the Christian Post: "The one issue in the culture wars that still has energy is 'gay marriage'-'same-sex unions,' and the like. While most public attention goes to its political and judicial fronts, as with Proposition 8 in California, less notice is given, except to members of some church bodies, to the battlefields in the churches. Episcopalians, Presbyterians, Lutherans, Methodists and other Protestants of many sorts seem bent on policies of self-destruction at their assemblies and conventions; so say those who anticipate with dread their denominational conventions this summer. We recall 'good old days,' when church leaders debated doctrines of the Trinity, Christology, and not just sex-sex-sex. Listen to those close to the scene and you will hear of ironies. Thus, the power people and convention voters tend to be older people, and they will decide on issues that-ask any campus pastor, for example-are seen as only old peoples' issues, not part of the world younger generations inhabit."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on March 25, 2009 (boomark / email).