Don’t worry. The Church will get back in bed with the Democrats just as soon as they get their exemption so that the Church gets to keep money in their coffers.
Where was this type of hard-line stance before Obamacare? Nowhere. Why? Because the Church is perfectly comfortable with their congregants supporting abortion in public office, as long as the Church gets to claim with pious fervor that their hands are clean.
“The Church will get back in bed with the Democrats just as soon as they get their exemption so that the Church gets to keep money in their coffers.”
Maybe, but I’m not sure. At this point the American Church either fights or becomes increasingly irrelevant. Even if they are just being practical, they must either show they are different from the storefront church across the street festooned with rainbow flags, or they can close up shop (which in my area is exactly what is happening - they are liquidating the assets).
“Because the Church is perfectly comfortable with their congregants supporting abortion in public office, as long as the Church gets to claim with pious fervor that their hands are clean.”
Certainly many in the hierarchy seemed quite comfortable with this; at this point the Church realizes that when you don’t enforce some rules, it becomes nearly impossible to enforce any. Either they take a stand, or continue shrinking.