New Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod Survey Shows Majority Are Pro-Choice, Pro-LGBTQ
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| ELCA has a host of advocates in all areas of ministry, if it can be called that. They intermingle with LCMS and WELS through Thrivent In$urance and anything else that moves. If one questions anything about La Popessa Eaton, the entire conglomerate jumps on him like a hobo on a hotdog. |
The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (LCMS) is a confessional (sic) Lutheran (sic) denomination that is the second largest in the country, historically viewed as serving as the conservative foil (sic) to the apostate Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)
Led by President Matthew Harrison, the denomination claimed 1.7M baptized congregants in 2023, with a reported weekly attendance of nearly 523k spread across 5.7k congregations. Notably, 45% of LCMS congregations have a weekly attendance of less than 50 people.
Pew Research, which previously published studies of the LCMS in 2007 and 2014, has released a massive new religious landscape survey on the denomination, with a sample size of 35,000 that includes 1200 Laity.
The results are dispiriting.
When it comes to homosexuality, 50% of respondents say it should be accepted, along with 50% who strongly favor/ favor same-sex marriage.
Likewise, 54% say abortion should be legal in all or most cases.
When it comes to evolution, 81% believe that humans evolved over time, either with or without God.
Lastly, when it comes to demographics, the numbers are bleak, with only 5% of members under the age of 30, and nearly half of members are senior citizens.
At the rate they’re going, merging with the ELCA in 20 years remains a very real possibility.
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