Back in 2009, after a bad loss in Maine for same sex marriage which folks expected to win, I wrote about what I call “The Elijah Moment.” As I reprint below, the “Elijah Moment” is a reference to the story of Elijah where, after he performs the miracle on Mt Carmel and destroys the priests of Ba’al and Ashtoret, Jezebel issues a royal decree that totally undoes everything he did and, as the cherry on top, puts a bounty on Elijah’s head. As I describe below, Elijah does not take th...
