I’ve honestly never heard of the Evangelical Covenant Church group, and I grew up surrounded by church in all flavors.
Anyway, good for them. They’ll be attacked mercilessly, now.
875 congregations in the United States and Canada with ministries on five continents of the world.
Founded in 1885 by Swedish immigrants, the church is now one of the most rapidly growing and multi-ethnic denominations in North America.[4] Historically Lutheran in theology and background, it is now a broadly evangelical movement.
A pietistic religious awakening had swept through Sweden around the middle of the 19th century. Before leaving their homeland some Swedes met in people’s homes, as they felt the state church was becoming overly powerful. There they conducted private services including hymn singing accompanied by guitars and read scripture from their Bibles, but they’d often hear an ominous authoritative knock at the door from a church official...The state church discouraged the gathering of these believers. It was people from this movement who emigrated to America and formed the Swedish Evangelical Mission Covenant of America.
The church is divided into eleven (11) regional conferences[7] – Canada Conference,[8] Central Conference,[9] East Coast Conference (org. 1890),[10] Great Lakes Conference,[11] Midsouth Conference,[12] Midwest Conference,[13] Pacific Northwest Conference,[14] Northwest Conference,[15] Pacific Southwest Conference,[16] Southeast Conference[17] - and its newest conference, the Alaska Conference.[18] The Covenant presence in Alaska dating from 1887 as a foreign mission outpost, but gradually transitioned its status to a home mission, and then finally full conference standing in 2015
Membership is concentrated primarily in three regions of the United States: the Midwest, along the West Coast, and in the Great Plains region.[19] California has the largest number of members, but the highest rates of membership are in Minnesota, Alaska, Kansas, Nebraska, and Washington.[19] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangelical_Covenant_Church
Radical Pietism emphasized the need for a "religion of the heart" instead of the head, and was characterized by ethical purity, inward devotion, charity, asceticism, and mysticism. Leadership was empathetic to adherents instead of being strident loyalists to sacramentalism. The Pietistic movement was birthed in Germany through spiritual pioneers who wanted a deeper emotional experience rather than a preset adherence to form (no matter how genuine). They stressed a personal experience of salvation and a continuous openness to new spiritual illumination. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_Pietism
It appears that they are being attacked and expelled for holding to Scripture, not for supporting LGBTQ