"Granted, it’s a field in which it takes little to be iconoclastic. Even with all the gay organists out there — some anecdotally guess church players are 70 percent gay in the U.S. — it’s a highly staid playing field. Churches that think musically outside the box are chucking the organ altogether in many cases, not thinking of ways to bring it into the 21st century." — The Blade
The guy on the right is more what you'll typically find behind the console!
The organ isn’t a 21st century instrument. The guitar is the defining instrument, has been since the late 1950s—one can even see this in rock-and-roll, which is where the switch from piano (Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, Fats Domino) to guitar (Buddy Holly, Church Berry, Elvis) takes place. Moreover, synthesized music is so close to “natural” that the untrained ear can’t tell the difference, and so the organ has become as anachronistic as a Victrola.
I’d like to keep writing, but I have to get dressed and get to church to set up for my organ playing this morning. And to be fair, in all my decades of church music, I have known a few straight men organists, lots of straight old lady organists, and lots of homosexuals—I lost my first church job as choir director when the church was interviewing an organist (the church’s setup precluded the organist directing the music), and I told the pastor privately that it was evident the man was a homosexual, and the rest of the music committee, who also could tell, didn’t care, because he was talented. They didn’t hire the man, but then they fired me, and then they fired the pastor.