This statement (below), extracted from the article, is so very true and captures a lot about what I think is too often lacking with the broader “Christian church” in terms of theological leadership and their congregations, with respect to theologically sound and sustained political and social influence.
“Even as a (gay) atheist, I wince to see the philosophical mess that religious conservatives are making of their case. Is there nobody of any intellectual stature left in our English church, or the Roman church, to frame the argument against Christianity’s slide into just going with the flow of social and cultural change?”