Is Every Political Website Now a Movement?

Yesterday I happened to spend a minute online and looked at the speaker’s list for the PrayVoteStand meeting being held in Washington, D.C. This group is a front group for the Family Research Council, which was founded in 1981 and took up where Anita Bryant left off, namely, to use the Evangelical population to rant and rave against gays.

It’s just a few years short of half a century ago when Anita tried to revive her country music career by promoting an anti-gay program in Dade County, Fl which overturned an ordnance prohibiting anti-gay discrimination but ultimately had the reverse effect of creating the national movement to affirm gay rights.

When you watch ads on DirecTV featuring gay couples, it’s difficult to imagine a time when being gay was something you kept to yourself. It wasn’t uncommon for gay men and women to move far away from their families and birth communities in order to follow a gay lifestyle but avoid bringing shame on the folks back home.

It’s now going on ten years since the Supreme Court affirmed the legality of gay marriages (Obergefell v. Hodges) in 2015, but if you were to walk around the PrayVoteStand meeting this weekend, you would think that gay rights are as much of a hot issue as it used to be.

Except it’s not unless you also believe that America needs to retain and strengthen its fundamental origins as a white, Christian nation, which happens to have been relevant when the country was founded 230 years ago but really doesn’t mean…