[Secret Agent Man]

Also include Presbyterian Church-USA, Metropolitan Community Church (ie the ‘gay’ church), United Church of Christ (the ‘other gay church’), and ELCA.

[PatrickF4]

Yes, these Liberal Protestant denominations seem to believe in a “social justice” gospel,and not the Gospel of Jesus Christ, or the traditional teachings of the Torah. I think that is the fundamental issue, and point of departure.

Orthodox religious bodies also believe in social justice, but not in the taking of human life for convenience, or the redefinition of marriage. These liberal denominations have been shrinking because of a general secularization of the culture and their own lack of faithfulness to the Gospel; they are attempting to reinvigorate themselves by acting as an opposing force to the Evangelical and traditional Catholic teachings. The consequences of the revisionist gospel; modern man apparently has no use for the original.