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Originally Posted by Jeff Lebowski
Once again, it is a hollow victory. This fact that they even feel the need to issue a statement like this illustrates that the battle was "won" but at tremendous cost. The church will be paying for this for a long time, IMO.
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I don't know what was won and what was lost.
The definition of marriage is preserved in California. Okay.
What did the Church lose? Favor with gays? Did it ever have any favor with gays? So, can it lose something it never had?
It invested political capital, and preserved some capital by winning. Had it lost, that would have mattered, because then it would have lost political capital and not won what it sought out to win.