My view: with nearly every change in society's moral consensus, the devoutly religious must be dragged kicking and screaming into it. They struggle against moral progress mightily, fighting tooth and nail, and proclaiming all the while that X is destructive, sinful, and base. Eventually, after the vast majority of the populace has finally come to accept X, the devout so often manage to convince themselves that X has always been the natural position of their religion, even if their religious leaders still condemn it every day.
