Churches ignore the proposal. A growing number of people will start to disagree with church teaching. Churches issue statements which condemn the proposal, citing Biblical passages as justification for their stance. Support for the proposal grows among the public. Churches issue statement pointing out that belief in the proposal negates the entire Christian message, or attacks a basic Christian principle.
Public support continues to grow.
Churches begin to ignore the proposal, and ignore the Biblical passages that it once quoted Many decades or centuries later, churches may incorporate the proposal into their beliefs. Laws in many states did not allow persons of different races to marry. A few decades after the US Supreme Court ended racial separation in the schools and declared anti-miscegenation laws unconstitutional, the scene is very different. Those Biblical passages which were so often cited to condemn mixed-race marriages are now ignored or reinterpreted. The SBC has had the decency to apologize recently for the pain that it caused Afro-Americans and for any residual racism that remains in the organization.