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Sexuality, race, and gender: Attitudes in America's 100 largest churches.
Church Clarity ran a study evaluating attitudes of America's 100 largest churches. It's worth a detailed read, but here are the major takeaways:
- 0% of Outreach’s 100 Largest churches have affirming LGBTQ+ policies
- Only 35% have CLEAR LGBTQ+ policies on the main pages of the websites. 65% of these church websites either obscure policy language (54% UNCLEAR) or entirely omit (11% UNDISCLOSED) their actively enforced LGBTQ+ policies.
- 43% are non-denominational churches; only 3 in 10 have clear LGBTQ+ policies.
- 7% are led by a senior pastor of color (people of color are 38% of US population).
- 1% are led by a senior female pastor, who is a co-pastor with her husband (women are 50% of the US population and 8% of Fortune 100 CEOs).
- Only 35% have CLEAR LGBTQ+ policies on the main pages of the websites. 65% of these church websites either obscure policy language (54% UNCLEAR) or entirely omit (11% UNDISCLOSED) their actively enforced LGBTQ+ policies.
- 43% are non-denominational churches; only 3 in 10 have clear LGBTQ+ policies.
- 7% are led by a senior pastor of color (people of color are 38% of US population).
- 1% are led by a senior female pastor, who is a co-pastor with her husband (women are 50% of the US population and 8% of Fortune 100 CEOs).
Interesting, yes, but pretty limited in its usefulness. Church Clarity polled the 100 churches with the highest membership rolls, which means, ipso facto, they're pulling data from a limited subset of American Christians: non-denominational, Southern Baptists, the kind of Christians who flock to megachurches.
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