David Gura speaks wh Rev. Kimberly Stt about last week's meetg of the Uned Methodist Church's Council of Bishops and s impedg vote on whether to orda gay pastors.
Contents:
- NATNAL CONGREGATNS STUDY FDS MORE CHURCH ACCEPTANCE OF GAYS AND LBIANS
- AMERIN CHURCH MT REJECT LERALISM AND ADM WE GOT WRONG ON GAY PEOPLE
NATNAL CONGREGATNS STUDY FDS MORE CHURCH ACCEPTANCE OF GAYS AND LBIANS
The Evangelil Lutheran Church Ameri, wh approximately 5 ln members, has passed repeated rolutns to wele gay and lbian people sce 1991. * lgbt accepting churches *
Supreme Court’s lg that gay and lbian upl have a right to marry. The graph shows the rponse to the lg and also the general acceptance of homosexualy among members each church, nomatn, or relign. Each bar is the percentage of each group that believe that homosexualy should be accepted by society.
AMERIN CHURCH MT REJECT LERALISM AND ADM WE GOT WRONG ON GAY PEOPLE
See our gui to the bt gay-iendly Christian church Hoton and learn how the cy's church have embraced our LGBTQ muny. * lgbt accepting churches *
The data may unr-state acceptance of homosexualy (bee the data is om 2007), but 1) parisons of groups to recent on same-sex marriage suggt that the change is small, and 2) the relative differenc between relig groups remas the same. The graph shows that public agreement wh the Supreme Court was mon among groups that have large majori of members who believe that homosexualy should be accepted.
Public pronouncements bee ls mon for groups which a majory is acceptg of homosexualy, but there remas a large mory that is not. Uned Methodists allow LGBT Christians to be members but “self-avowed practicg homosexuals” nnot be clergy, and same-sex marriage nnot be performed. As I show the next graph, Catholics who see a nflict between tradn and morn society are far ls acceptg of homosexualy (see graph below).
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Church are likely to publicly disagree wh the urt cisn if their members are ls acceptg of homosexualy. This send admtedly-rabow-lored graph ranks over 40 relig groups on their members’ views of homosexualy. Nearly all Unarians, Buddhists, Jews (wh the exceptn of the orthodox), and the so-lled “non” are acceptg of homosexualy.
Evangelils and most the historilly black nomatns are the least acceptg of homosexualy. Catholics say that homosexualy should be accepted by society. "Tim Schraer, an openly gay Christian and the -founr of Church Clary, said his anizatn chose megachurch church for this new report, bee, "We know people look to the church for fluence.
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The anizatn tegori church as Undisclosed, Unclear: Non-Affirmg, Unclear: Affirmg, Clear: Non-Affirmg, Clear: Affirmg, Actively Discerng or Verified speakg about the importance of transparency regardg LGBTQ polici, Schraer referenced the story of Nathaniel Totten, a gay Christian who attend the nonnomatnal Elevatn Church Roanoke, Virgia.
In 1991, the Churchwi Assembly passed a rolutn statg that, "Gay and lbian people, as dividuals created by God, are wele to participate fully the life of the ngregatns of the Evangelil Lutheran Church Ameri. This Kansas Cy, Kansas group provis healg to those who have experienced “church hurt” due to their methodologyIn the origal versn of this article, a hoe of worship had to explicly state s support for the LGBTQ muny s official materials or be led by an openly gay mister orr to make the cut. Person and onleIn addn to officiatg gay weddgs and once hostg the st of Queer Eye, Crossroads Church stat that around 20% of s membership intifi as part of the LGBTQ muny.