Pastor Ryan Burge, Research Director of Faith Counts, just dropped new data from their new survey on "gender identity" among young adults in faith communities across America.
Here's the graph up front to consider:
Note, that among those of the Christian faith groups, those age 18-25 claiming to be LGBTQ+ include 16% of Protestants, 17% of Catholics, 17% of "Just Christians," and 22% of Mormons.
Strangely enough, 15% of Muslims also claim to be LGBTQ+, where the punishment for such sin is death.
Likewise, in Christianity, the Bible expressly forbids any sort of sexuality outside of what is referred to as "Cis" marriage today.
Which brings me to my questions. Now, usually my questions in these sorts of studies regard the data, but Burge is pretty good at just presenting the data as it lies without making wild conjectures.
However, it's worth noting that even the presentation of the data does have some subtle implications that are problematic.
For example, if none of these faith traditions recognizes LGBTQ as a part of their faith, how can we say 16% of Protestants or 17% of Catholics are LGBTQ+ when in order to make such an identification, they would have had to abandon their faith?
Now, I know modern academics will carry water for the LGBTQ+ crowd and give us the whole "did God really say?" line like Satan and tell us that God made LGBTQ+ people the way they are, so it can't be sin, and the Bible doesn't really say it's bad anyway.
But these are the same people that somehow do that with the Islamic faith too, and the prophet Mohammed was way less tolerant than just calling the LGBTQ+ crowd abominations.
Modern academia‘s interpretations are wildly untrustworthy, and yet somehow there are churches being led down the path of destruction by graduates of the Twisted-Scripture Seminary at Woke University.
In the end, these sorts of surveys do little more than remind us why Protestantism came to be in the first place.
There comes a point where church leadership strays so far from God, that all a Christian can do is stand in the midst of the wavering throng and, like Luther, say,
My conscience is captive to the Word of God. Thus I cannot and will not recant, because acting against one's conscience is neither safe nor sound. Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me.
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