Dr. Albert Mohler, president of the
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, has said gay marriage is
coming and Christians need to “deal with that,”
RightWingWatch.org
reported.
Two
days after President Obama announced he would no longer defend the
Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which bans federal recognition of
gay marriage, Mohler told Focus on the Family's Jim Daly that
marriage equality was not only inevitable but a reality for a “good
number of Americans.”
“I think a lot of Christian
conservatives are going to try to deny the obvious,” Mohler said on
Daly's radio broadcast. “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 inevitability,
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,” he added.