Sentences with phrase «same mainline denominations»

Not exact matches

As more mainline denominations ordain openly gay clergy and more states pass same - sex laws, some gay evangelicals — and their allies - are openly deviating from Wheaton's official and long - held positions.

Most mainline denominations have come out against the amendments even though some of them do not allow same - sex couples to wed in their churches.

The UCC became the first mainline Protestant denomination to officially support same - sex marriage in 2005.

One frequently cited bar graph has been used to suggest, for the decade 1965 - 75, a severe diminution of seven mainline Protestant bodies by contrast both with their gains in the preceding ten years and with the continuing growth of selected conservative churches (see Jackson W. Carroll et al., Religion in America, 1950 to the Present [Harper & Row, 19791, p. 15) The gap in growth rates for 1965 - 75, as shown on that graph, is more than 29 percentage points (an average loss in the oldline denominations of 8.9 per cent against average gains among the conservatives of 20.5 per cent) This is indeed a substantial difference, but it does not approach the difference in growth rates recorded for the same religious groups in the 1930s, when the discrepancy amounted to 62 percentage points.

As I contemplate the church today, I would judge it to be an institution in very serious trouble; every mainline denomination is faced with the same agonies of declining membership.

Though other mainline denominations have opened the doors to the full participation of gay members, the UMC's General Conference spent the last 44 years consistently voting to maintain the denomination's ban on same - sex unions and on ordaining non-celibate clergy.