Abortion fight won, conservative Christians mimic Dobbs tactics to go after same-sex marriage
A man holds as US flag and a pride flag outside the Supreme Court in Washington after the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage nationwide on June 26, 2015. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
If you listened closely at a meeting of mostly evangelical Christian communicators, activists, and lawyers that took place in Dallas in February, you could hear more than a few panel discussions and hallway conversations repeatedly circle back to the same topic: same-sex marriage.
Having helped to engineer the demise of Roe v. Wade after half a century of anti-abortion activism, attendees at the National Religious Broadcasters conference openly discussed plans to make shorter work of Obergefell v. Hodges, the landmark 2015 Supreme Court ruling that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.
“Obergefell is on very shaky ground,” Mathew Staver, founder of the conservative Christian nonprofit legal group Liberty Counsel, which leaders describe as a ministry, told the audience of one panel at the conference. “It’s not a matter of, in my opinion, if it will eventually be overturned, but when it’ll be overturned.”
