In 2008, Barack Obama was well within the mainstream of American opinion when he said that "I believe that marriage is the union between a man and a woman. Now, for me as a Christian—for me—for me as a Christian, it is also a sacred union. God's in the mix." Back then, few would have predicted that by 2019 such a view would be beyond the pale for a Democratic candidate.
Of course, not all of Obama's 2008 position is now anathema. Christians who believe in the sanctity of marriage are still welcome in the Democratic party, provided they mean the right thing by "marriage." Mayor Pete Buttigieg has made his own brand of pro-LGBT Protestantism a campaign calling card, insisting that those who wouldn't recognize his own same-sex marriage have "a quarrel with [his] creator."
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