There is movement in the contemporary Church which is seeming to align itself with racialism, gay rights, and feminism, and their peculiar views regarding what constitutes equality. There is increasing evidence that churches and denominations are accepting leftist cultural viewpoints and rejecting traditional Bible doctrines because those doctrines are "hateful" and "oppressive."
Cries of "check your privilege" and "all whites are racist" and "men are oppressors of women" and "why are you against two people loving each other" are beginning to be expressed in churches previously committed to biblical teaching. The echos of the shouting of radicals in the street have made there way to church elder boards and denominational leaders. Contemporary culture is gaining a greater foothold in congregations and faith organizations.
In political terms, the root of many of these kinds of statements is a stated or tacit assumption that our culture is flawed and evil and needs to be modified, supplanted, or overthrown. The rhetoric is different, the methods are varied, but the goal is the same as it has always been: Socialist revolution.
Christianity has always been a target for those who wish to throw off any and all restraint in the name of freedom. Christianity speaks of a holy God who looks at the hearts of men. All men are sinful, all men need a savior, and all men fall completely short of the righteous standards of God. These sort of things grate on the darkened mind.
And those who carry the message of righteousness, repentance, and forgiveness from sin in Christ Jesus become targets. The bearers of the Good News are the enemy, a constant reminder of the iniquity of those who are not saved. Thus it becomes easy and necessary for those who dwell in darkness to cast their opponents as being against equality, or unloving, or judgmental, which in turn justifies any sort of sanction.
The Church from its earliest days has always been prone to compromise. But it seems worse now. Contemporary culture is viewed, if not a model for church ministry and doctrine, at least something to be accommodated. Truth is either malleable or reinterpretable as culture changes. Over the course of time compromised positions become inerrant doctrine. At some point the church or denomination becomes indistinguishable from the culture that surrounds it.
A famous person once said, "if you and me always agree, then one of us is unnecessary." Indeed, if the Church looks exactly like the world, the church is redundant. And that's why many mainline denominations are experiencing declines in attendance while others are dying out completely. They simply don't have anything to offer that is different from the culture.