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Obergefell: 10 Years Later

What year did California ban same-sex marriage?

That’s the question I always ask my students in cultural apologetics. They answer anywhere from the 1950s and 1960s, and sometimes the 1980s. I get nothing less than shock when I give the answer.

In 2008. The same year when both Democratic contenders for the presidential nomination said they opposed same-sex marriage.

Much had changed by the time President Obama successfully ran for reelection in 2012. In 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court mandated same-sex marriage across the country in a 5–4 decision known as Obergefell v. Hodges.

This decision codified one of the most rapid, dramatic cultural changes in American history. It also rocked the church. Ten years ago, the sexual revolution felt like a rumbling freight train that couldn’t be stopped or even slowed. The Western church split in ways that recalled the Protestant Reformation 500 years ago.

So why is support for same-sex marriage declining 10 years later? Why didn’t more churches, denominations, and ministries cave? Why didn’t transgenderism become the next successful cause of the sexual revolution?

I look back on the decade since Obergefell in the latest episode of Gospelbound.

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Obergefell: 10 Years Later

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