Of the Anglican and Episcopal Churches: the former has transgender renaming ceremonies, the latter allows LGBT marriage. The Episcopal Church, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, and The Presbyterian Church (USA), all ordain LGBT clergy. A Methodist Church in Chicago even took part in Glitter Ash Wednesday.
Not only does none of the above go on, or is endorsed, in Orthodoxy, but when I do an image search like "Orthodox Christian LGBT" I see mostly either LGBT groups protesting outside of Orthodox Churches, or LGBT people being attacked in some fashion. Do a general search with the same phrase, and outside of some weird heretical outliers, the resultant links promote an anti-LGBT stance.
and once again, any LGBT positive "Orthodox" Churches are weird heretical outliers.
Yet according to the Pew Research Poll you linked, statistically speaking, Orthodoxy is more Liberal than the hyper-Liberal churches I just mentioned.
Something's not adding up here. Fellow Orthobros, can you confirm some sort of Liberal creep/shift that is taking place that I am unaware of?
Cooper Sanders
he is only citing US polling data, also democrats are over sampled by an average of 10% in polls, and the fact that democrats are statistically more likely to answer polls (as are old people) makes the pew poll flaming garbage.
William Green
Dumb point. this is in comparison to other denominations. It would skew everything and orthodox wouldn't be in last place for conservatism.
Samuel Bell
Polls are always biased trash one way or another. How hasn't everyone figured this out yet?
Liam Price
Again they are more liberal relative to Lutherans and Catholics. The poll would skew all denominations if they were only polling liberals.
Anthony Price
Oh! Now I see that I should make decisions that could effect my immortal soul be influenced by the polling of God-hating modern secularists!
Kevin Price
What if she did have a 98% chance to win, and she's just really unlucky?
Isaac Garcia
Why don't you join the larpagans on Zig Forums? I'm sure they're up your alley if that's what you care for.
If I had to guess, it probably ties to 1. The fact many of the orthodox countries were once socialist, which could influence some of the followers who come from those areas and 2. A large portion of the American orthodox population are immigrants, which could tie in to voting for Democrats.
Meanwhile, you have a majority of Catholics in America now being from the Latin American countries and overwhelmingly voting for the party that supports abortion, while modernizing their church.
