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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a gay man I have noticed this and I do find it weird. Another gay friend of mine commented that it's as if the churches have a new saint, this time Saint LGBTQ. Will say Saint BLM has faded away except at the most hard-core.

I do find it partly weird because I also know the Bible and the history of Christian theology so there's some pretty audacious cherry picking going on. Then again, theology is always evolving and cherry picking. But as someone who grew up in a non ideological mainline Presbyterian congregation and somewhat interested in joining a church[b], I do check out the church staff pages and if there's a queer non binary director of youth education (they always have the pronouns and refer to "they") I pretty much write the church off as a place that blends creative approaches to Christianity with progressive politics, aka not non ideological or political. [/b]

Mainline church memberships have been collapsing for a while. It seems like the options are either very conservative or very progressive and political and little in between. [/quote]

Interesting take.
We left a Lutheran church and went to another church (that was also affirming) simply for this very reason. The youth pastor they hired was seemingly much more interested in spreading the “gospel of LGBT+” to our DC than teaching foundational scripture and it became glaringly obvious that this person was there to push an activist agenda rather than to worship God and to lead students in their understanding of the Bible and their walk with Christ. It was a tough call since we consider ourselves to be pretty liberal politically, but the focus with youth was so specifically and heavily on this one issue that it took center stage and started to feel like he was running a school LGBT+ club.

We are going to church to worship the risen Lord and to help our children build a foundation of faith in Christ, and we agree that He loves us all and that no one is shut out from His invitation to walk with Him and accept salvation through Him. But the message we were getting from this youth pastor was that you can prove you are a “good person” by performative worship of LGBT. [/quote]

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