It’s not surprising when you consider that many clergy and churchgoing folks, evangelical and otherwise, have treated marriage rather lightly in the past couple generations. Divorce? No big deal. Premarital sex? No big deal. Living together without benefit of clergy? No big deal. So why shouldn’t the youth, the primary victims of that marriage devaluation, now say, “civil unions? No big deal.”
You have definitely hit the nail on the head.
THAT bears repeating. The churches have done this to themselves.