“They just thought it wasn’t worth the fight, the effort. I think a few of them were worried that it might be used in an election year,” said Brandon Campbell, a pastor who travels weekly to the capitol from his small church in exurban Sacramento to represent the interests of independent evangelical pastors through the California Capitol Connection network. “The fight is not pointless, and we need to stay in the battle. Getting our side to see that does seem to be a lot more difficult than the abortion issue.”

Or, y’know, because it has nothing to fucking do with you.