As I understand it, it's emblematic of the accommodations made between the very traditional christians in the US and the far more liberal populace. The previous agreement was the compromise position, but now that the heavily-Democrat areas have decided that they don't need to honour agreements with gaspconservatives those self-same conservatives don't apparently feel the need to moderate their own views to play nice with the "liberals".
As I understand it, it's emblematic of the accommodations made between the very traditional christians in the US and the far more liberal populace. The previous agreement was the compromise position, but now that the heavily-Democrat areas have decided that they don't need to honour agreements with gasp conservatives those self-same conservatives don't apparently feel the need to moderate their own views to play nice with the "liberals".