Carrying on the media’s continued effort to poke at Christians, Conan O’Brien cracked a joke, suggesting that evangelicals’ supposed intolerance of gay people may be coming to an end: “Across the country, some evangelical groups are starting to take a second look at the Bible’s stance on gay people. Yeah, they're taking a second look at it. They're noting that if you count Joseph and God, Jesus had two daddies.”
The joke may have been light-hearted, but the assumption from Conan – and most of the liberal media – that evangelicals would need to take a “second look at the Bible’s stance on gay people” suggests something is wrong with how evangelicals view gay people now. This bias is hardly surprising from Conan; the comedian officiated a gay wedding on his program just a few years ago.