The Family Research Council’s vice president for church ministries, Kenyn Cureton, opened yesterday’s “Watchmen on the Wall” conference with a warning to pastors that if the Supreme Court strikes down gay marriage bans, then this nation will fall to “sexual tyranny.”

“We’re living in the midst of a rapidly escalating conflict in America today,” Cureton said. “It’s a war between light and darkness. It’s a war between good and evil. It’s a war between the God-given right to life and a culture of death. It’s a war between biblical sexuality and the radical homosexual agenda. It’s a war between our religious freedom and their desire to drive God out of government, Christ out of culture, and faith out of public life.”

“If the Supreme Court rules gay marriage as the law of the land in all 50 states,” he continued, “LGBT behavior will be elevated to a civil right and it will result in sexual tyranny that will trump our religious liberty. You mark it down”: