Culture wars as cause of violence in black neighborhoods

Sandouri notes the importance of clergy in stemming inner-city violence in the early 1990s and wonders if their more recent fight against gay marriage is responsible for some of the recent increase in violence:

... When one hears Wall's stinging critique of his fellow pastors for dropping the ball and growing complacent to the battle waging in Dorchester, Roxbury, and Mattapan, it's hard to avoid the conclusion that at least part of the problem was that Boston's black clergy moved on to another battle: the same-sex marriage debate. In the grassroots campaign to mobilize their parishioners against marriage equality for same-sex couples, how much time and resources were wasted by The Black Ministerial Alliance and the Boston Ten Point Coalition, the very same organizations that played such a crucial role in the success of the Boston Miracle, all while a brutal war continued to wage in some of Boston's poorest neighborhoods? ...