Exactly, it silenced the mainstream Churches and now we’re reaping the rewards of a bought and paid for beholden pulpit,
To sharpen the point; the liberal mainstream churches can promote their gay pastors, their boycott of Israel, their undermining of any policy that hints at American exceptionalism with no fear (their be membership may be crashing but that’s another story). However a conservative, evangelical minister intrudes on the prerogative of the state from the pulpit at great risk.