Understood and rejected

Laurie Goodstein of the New York Times reports on the Fundie reaction to the election results. They went all out on this campaign, with 30 million voter guides placed in churches, speaking by Billy Graham and Catholic bishops, and getting their message out any way they could. And they lost. Big time. Gay marriage approved. Outspoken opponents of abortion were trounced. Even marijuana approved. And Obama won.

R. Albert Mohler Jr., president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, put it this way:

It’s not that our message — we think abortion is wrong, we think same-sex marriage is wrong — didn’t get out. It did get out. It’s that the entire moral landscape has changed. An increasingly secularized America understands our positions, and has rejected them.

What to do about that is a problem (at least for them, I'm quite delighted!). The percent of people, especially youth, who don't declare church affiliation has been rising. The Fundie church population is dropping and getting grayer. The liberal church is becoming more outspoken. The Fundie Christian strategy in politics isn't working anymore. Yay!