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Even if one doesn't think it right to directly apply the Law of Moses (the 10 Commandments) in civil law to non-Christians, the judgement of Sodom and Gomorrah was LONG before Moses and the giving of the Mosaic code--proving, as Bob Gagnon argues (following Jesus' example), homosexual behavior is violation of a foundational, from-the-Garden, pre-fall principle, of one man and one woman for life--applicable to all people, everywhere.

...but then proceeds to argue that we can ignore the culture war because it is “mere politics” and go AWOL in the middle of the homosexual assault on marriage in America, I fail to see how such a person is obeying God at this time when what is left of Christianity is under direct attack in the civil sphere.

My thought's exactly. The following (attributed to Luther, but apparently apocryphal) quote is (none-the-less)true:

Where the battle rages the loyalty of the soldier is proved; and to be steady on all the battle-field besides is mere flight and disgrace to him if he flinches at that one point."

Oh, by the way, that great spurious Luther quote:

"If I profess, with the loudest voice and the clearest exposition, every portion of the truth of God except precisely that little point which the world and the devil are at that moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christianity.
Where the battle rages the loyalty of the soldier is proved; and to be steady on all the battle-field besides is mere flight and disgrace to him if he flinches at that one point. "

was by, Elizabeth Rundle Charles, from the novel The Chronicles of the Schoenberg Cotta Family (Thomas Nelson, 1864.)

While it does SOUND a lot like Luther...and Mrs. Charles' fictional novel was about Lutherans, apparently Francis Schaeffer (mis)quoted it as Luther...and so has everyone since.