I guess it's understandable that, even given their president's reservations, they plan to continue with this fight - belief in the face of unreliable odds is, of course, what faith is. But questions remain.

Perhaps the first and most obvious thing: "Christians can't expect the culture to be the church?" Of course there are millions of Christians in America who fully understand and respect the separation of church and state, but none of those seem to be the Christians in charge of any of the organizations leading the fight against marriage equality. One of the only defendant witnesses in the Prop 8 trial - whose job was to provide legally sound testimony as to why the government sanction of gay unions would be detrimental to the country - was William Hak-shing Tam, head of the America Return To God Prayer Movement. The campaign that he worked on along with Protect Marriage, was funded in large part by the Mormon church. That seems like more than an expectation of national church culture - it seems like it's been made a reality.