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In case you’re living under a right wing rock… https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-recorded-having-extremely-lewd-conversation-about-women-in-2005/2016/10/07/3b9ce776-8cb4-11e6-bf8a-3d26847eeed4_story.html

It’s been a free-for-all. My favorite tweet was this one. https://twitter.com/micahjmurray/status/784509361733251072/photo/1

Russell Moore reposted his NYTimes piece from last year. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/17/opinion/have-evangelicals-who-support-trump-lost-their-values.html

In the middle of this the evangelical sub-conversation is Intervarsity and Twitter feeds me this. https://paulvanderklay.me/2016/10/07/my-conflicted-you-might-like-twitter-stream/

I thought Jethani’s three points were dead on http://skyejethani.com/3-reasons-intervarsitys-decision-on-gay-marriage-is-a-big-deal/

1. Marriage has gone from an assumed belief to an essential doctrine
2. Evangelicalism is defined by parachurch ministries like InterVarsity
3. Fence sitting on gay marriage is no longer allowed

All three points were great but I’d footnote point one in that there is often an implied subpoint that I’ve made often. Among the progressive evangelicals I always get the sense that the LGBTQ accommodations are simply readjustments to traditional marriage. We will afford these accommodations (usually vague) to these special people (imagined group of non-heteros that are non-fluid and easily personally distinct from the majority hetero tribe) and everything will go “back to normal”.

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