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...think gay marriage was as big an issue in the presidential campaign as it has been in the past. The referendum in California certainly made it a huge post-election issue. It's still a very divisive issue in churches on the left and the right. But here's where the shift is taking place: young evangelicals and Catholics don't see gay marriage as a life issue. They have gay friends and colleagues and they don't see homosexuality as the greatest threat to marriage and family. Now, they care about marriage and family - this generation is really challenging...
...Despite reports that she is not supportive of gay marriage and her earlier position that she supported only civil unions for gay couples, the Empire State Pride Agenda endorsed her appointment and said she assured the group that she "supports marriage equality for same-sex couples...
That concert also showed, though, that you can't just wish acrimony away. There was an immediate controversy when a prayer by gay Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson was left off the HBO broadcast. There's a whole talk-show industry devoted to feeding those "stale political arguments." And we've seen overblown predictions before that events would ennoble American culture--see, again, 9/11...
...remains, though, that the major speaking slots for religious figures will be filled this year by Protestant Christians. It's possible that Obama aides got so tied up in a search for ideological diversity - Warren is a theologically conservative Evangelical, Lowery a feisty political liberal, Robinson the first openly gay bishop in the Episcopal Church and Watkins the first woman given such a prominent religious spot in an Inauguration ceremony - that they gave up on a goal of ecumenism. It's also likely that at a time when politicians use the phrase "church, synagogue or mosque" and both Hanukkah...
...issues. "There is no Christian religious test," he told TIME in the days before the event, vowing that questions would center on four areas: poverty, HIV/AIDS, climate change and human rights. On the night of the forum, however, Warren hewed closely to a conservative script, asking the candidates about gay marriage, judges and abortion, and only briefly touching on poverty and climate change...