Albert Mohler Tells Focus on the FamilyListeners to Face Inevitability of Gay Marraige

I typically view Albert Mohler of the Southern Baptist Convention to be pretty untethered from objective reality as he clings desperately to an inerrant approach to the Bible and argues against evolution and many other aspects of modernity. Thus it was a huge surprise to read at Right Wing Watch that Mohler has said during an interview on FOTF's radio programing that gay marriage was inevitable and that the wingnut elements of the Christianists needed start facing that reality. No doubt Daddy Dobson, Tony Perkins, Maggie Gallagher, et al, nearly wet themselves as Mohler uttered these statements. The homophobia of the Christianists is driving more and more individuals - especially youths - from Christianity and, in my view, the Christianist need to change or they will be the ones responsible for killing off Christianity. Here are highlights from Right Wing Watch:
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Albert Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, joined Focus on the Family's Jim Daly on his radio program to discuss the news that the Obama administration would no longer defend DOMA in court.
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During the discussion, Mohler said that it is all but inevitable that day is coming when marriage equality will "become normalized, legalized, and recognized in the culture" and that Christians had better be prepared for living in a nation where they find themselves in the minority.
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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 talk about same-sex marriage, we talk 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're already facing not just the inevitably, but the reality of same-sex marriage. I think it's clear that something like same-sex marriage - indeed, almost exactly what we would envision by that - is going to become normalized, legalized, and recognized in the culture. It's time for Christians to start thinking about how we're going to deal with that.
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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're going to have to learn what it means to live faithfully as Christians when we do not have those supports. You know, it's one thing to live believing that you're in the majority position - everything comes pretty easy that way ...
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Despite the inevitability of gay marriage nationwide, we can expect Maggie Gallagher and other self-enriching culture war whores to continue to milk opposition to gay marriage for every dollar they can wring out of the sheeple.