Christian denominations not pro lgbtq
Stances of Faiths on LGBTQ+ Issues: United Church of Christ
BACKGROUND
Founded in 1957 with the joining of the General Council of Congregational Christian Churches and the Evangelical and Reformed Church, the Combined Church of Christ (UCC) is recognized as one of the most welcoming and affirming Christian denominations, celebrating same-sex marriages since 2005 and ordaining Homosexual pastors since 1972. Numbering more than 5,000 churches and close to a million members, the UCC core values include an “Extravagant Welcome,” and the affirmation, “No matter who you are, or where you are on life's journey, you're welcome here.”
While individual churches remain autonomous, they also hold membership in regional associations and conferences and are represented at a General Synod convened every two years. Synod resolutions provide guidelines for all UCC churches but do not dictate policy. Experiences can, therefore, differ between congregations. A central headquarters in Cleveland, OH, oversees a range of national ministries, including that of Justice and Witness. Among other accomplishments, the Ministry of Justice and Witness partnered with the Unitarian Universalist Association to c
Denominations
- Affirm United/S’affirmer Ensemble (United Church of Canada) - https://ause.ca/
Affirm is an group of persons working through education and social integration for the welcoming of diverse peoples, especially the inclusion of gay, female homosexual, bisexual and transgender persons in the life and work of the church. Affirm is composed of people of all sexual orientations and gender identities and so it is open to all people within the United Church of Canada who back these goals. - Affirming Christian Fellowship (Charismatic) - https://acf.lgbt/
The Affirming Christian Fellowship, formerly The Evangelical Network (TEN), is a group of Bible-believing Charismatic churches, ministries, Christian workers, and individuals bound together by a common shared faith, joined in purpose and witness and established as a positive resource and help for Christian gays and lesbians. - Alliance of Baptists (Baptist) - https://allianceofbaptists.org/
The Alliance of Baptists is a movement of progressive Christians--individuals and congregations--seeking to respond to the continuing name of God in a rapidly changing world. The Alliance offers a eliminate voice for CStances of Faiths on LGBTQ+ Issues: Roman Catholic Church
BACKGROUND
The Roman Catholic Church is the largest Christian denomination in the nature, with approximately 1.2 billion members across the globe. With its origins in the earliest days of Christianity, the Church traces its leadership––in the person of the Pope––to St. Peter, identified by Jesus as “the rock” on which the Church would be built.
The Catholic Church in the United States numbers over 70 million members, and is organized in 33 Provinces, each led by an archbishop. Each bishop answers directly to the Pope, not to an archbishop. Those Provinces are further divided into 195 dioceses, each led by a bishop. At the base of the organizational structure are local parishes, headed by a pastor, appointed by the local bishop. The Conference of Catholic Bishops in the United States meets semi-annually.
As part of a global corporation with its institutional center at the Vatican, the Catholic Church in America is shaped by worldwide societal and cultural trends. It is further shaped by leadership that is entirely male, with women excluded from the priesthood and thus from key leadership roles.
LGBTQ+ EQUALITY
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Religion and Faith
Nearly half of LGBTQ Americans are religious, and a majority of all people of faith, LGBTQ and non-LGBTQ, support protections against discrimination for LGBTQ people. Myths that all people of faith challenge LGBTQ people and equality are fueled by vitriolic conflict to LGBTQ people and families by anti-LGBTQ activists who claim to express for all Christians or other religious groups. The rhetoric of these anti-LGBTQ activists frequently leads to media coverage that falsely positions LGBTQ equality as “God vs. gay.” Despite increasing religious acceptance of LGBTQ people, voices of those who fight LGBTQ equality are disproportionately represented in media coverage: a 2012 GLAAD review found three out of four religious leaders interviewed by the media on LGBTQ issues reach from traditions that have policies or traditions that stand against LGBTQ equality. In 2020, a Center for American Progress (CAP) study of media coverage of LGBTQ issues set up that while 66.3% of the religiously-identified sources in these articles expressed negative or anti-LGBTQ sentiment, public opinion polling of religious-affiliated Americans suggests that only 25.8% oppose nondiscrimin
While some branches of Christianity are strongly associated with anti-LGBTQ values, their actual religious leaders might not be, and experts told Newsweek why that might be.
That's the latest news from a recent investigate from the Public Religion Research Institute, which surveyed more than 3,000 clergy who led congregations from the seven largest Protestant denominations.
The Christian leaders were overwhelmingly in favor of laws that protect lgbtq+, lesbian, bisexual and trans people against discrimination in jobs, public accommodations and housing, with 90 percent supporting this across all denominations.
The slight variation in the data came down to the American Baptist Church clergy, who trailed a bit behind in their support at just 80 percent.
Still, the religious leaders were far more likely to support nondiscrimination laws for LGBTQ people than their own churchgoers, who only supported the protective laws at 71 percent.
Region also played a role when it came to the tendency of the Christian leaders to favor protections for the LGBTQ community—only 86 percent of rural clergy supported the laws compared to 93 and 95 percent of suburban and urban religious lea