It's a problem for the church. I don't see it solving it. I expect it to continue shooting itself in the foot, as it has with the abortion issue. It has to for as long as it can. What are they going to do to rein in the homophobia problem, or the misogyny problem? Nothing. What can they do but be more silent, and I'm pretty sure that Christian culture, which teaches spreading the gospel wherever and whenever possible, won't permit that.
The individual adherent must choose what he wishes to express to others in the face of a culture that would reject him for that behavior like he rejects gays. He will be seen as morally deficient and likely chastised for expressing such religious views. And why not? Every other religious demographic faces the same judgment, and since all of the others are too weak to affect law or policy, they keep their religious opinions to themselves. Think of the Muslims. I practiced medicine in a rural area with about a dozen Muslim docs and a few dozen Christian ones. We only heard from the Christians, because they felt empowered expressing themselves. I had to keep silent as an atheist. The Muslims were silent as well.
But now that atheists are taking a more prominent position in society and are increasingly less marginalized and demonized by the church, they have become emboldened and vocal themselves - what many like to call militant atheism - and its the increasingly put church on the defensive, as in this thread. In another few decades, the Christians in America may have the same status as the other religions, and be pressured into keeping their religion private and confined to the lives of believers and those who want to hear them, just like the Sikhs and Druids, as it should be in a diverse, tolerant, secular society.
I look forward to a day when nobody has any better idea of how Jesus feels about gays than how Brigid, a Celtic goddess, feels. What would Brigid do? I don't know. Who?
