Pacific Views

We wouldn't want to get overconfident.

But it looks like at least some of the religious right may be getting ready to lose the battle on same-sex marriage.

We were over at our favorite religious-right news site, Crosswalk, to get see what the recent events in San Francisco and Massachusetts look like from their side of the fence. We found something interesting near the bottom of Albert Mohler's op-ed against same sex marriages:

The developments in California and Massachusetts raise the possibility that same-sex marriage cannot be stopped. Driven by a legislative, judicial, and political steamroller, the momentum toward same-sex marriage is building day by day, and proponents of homosexual marriage believe that time is on their side.

They have good reason for confidence. Supporters of traditional marriage are on the defensive, arguing for the inherently heterosexual nature of marriage, even as the courts and the cultural elites declare this to be nothing more than a form of unwarranted discrimination.

Mohler, by the way, is not a marginal figure on the religious right. He's head of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, the leading seminary for the Southern Baptist Conference.