THE BATTLE OF THE BATTLE OF INDIANA AND THE PROMISE OF BATTLES TO COME

摘要

The dust has cleared from the Twitter and Facebook battlefields; the people of Indiana are out from under the white-hot glare of the national media; and both sides haven taken stock. Who won the Battle of Indiana? Who lost? What is next for religious liberty in the U.S.? While conservative pessimists looked at Indiana, watched its politicians immediately compromise, and saw defeat, a closer look shows something else: a cultural stalemate. Nobody truly won in Indiana. From the grassroots to the intellectual elite, conservatives are girding themselves for the long war, and a long war it will be. Four truths are emerging: first, the battle is not between gay rights and religious liberty- although religious liberty certainly is at stake -but between the sexual revolution and Christianity itself. This means that Christians are faced not with allegedly "minor" or "insignificant" theological changes to gain leftist acceptance, but with wholesale changes to the historical doctrines of the church.