By Owen Strachan
There’s a straight line that runs through the thinking of many secular journalists and your average person seeking to claim the many-splendored territory known as “the right side of history” — that the church is going to give on gay marriage. It’s just a matter of time, they argue, before the government drops the hammer. When that happens, evangelical churches — including the nation’s largest denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention — will come to heel beneath the steel-toed boot of progress.