How Do Americans Feel About Women, Gays in the Pulpit?

Rasmussen Reports ^ | 1/30/15

[SoFloFreeper]

Americans support women in the pulpit and in senior leadership positions within the church. But they are more hesitant when it comes to supporting openly gay and lesbian religious leaders.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 60% of American Adults favor women in the pulpit, while just 16% are opposed. Twenty-five percent (25%) are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

Even more (74%) support women in leadership positions in their respective faiths. Just nine percent (9%) are opposed, with 17% undecided.

Just 43% of Americans favor openly gay and lesbian individuals in the pulpit. Thirty-eight percent (38%) are opposed. Nineteen percent (19%) are undecided.

Forty-six percent (46%) support open gays and lesbians holding senior leadership positions in their respective faiths. Thirty-four percent (34%) do not, while 19% are not sure.

The more one attends religious services, however, the less supportive he or she is of women, gays and lesbians in the pulpit.

[editor-surveyor]

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Throw your Bibles in the trash!

Its a hate book. God’s sex bias must be overcome.

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[miele man]

for later reading.

[reg45]

I think that the results of this survey would have a significant variation by denomination.

[rightwingcrazy]

“4* Do you favor or oppose women in the pulpit?”

I imagine that many/most read this to mean *some* pulpit, not necessarily their own congregation’s. An affirmative answer may just mean that they support freedom of religion, generally.

[miss marmelstein]

And they look so dumb and butch in their dog collars! So tasteless.

[trisham]

Yes, that’s been my experience as well. Some also seem like old hippies.

[P-Marlowe]

Just 43% of Americans favor openly gay and lesbian individuals in the pulpit.

Just?????

[afsnco]

I favor neither. Then again, I read and believe the Bible, and I love and fear God more than I love and fear men.

[SamuraiScot]

60% of American Adults favor women in the pulpit

And of these wise adults who approve, how many actually go to church?

[celmak]

The poll should ask:

"Do you agree or disagree with what the Bible says about women on the pulpit, and homosexuals?"

A: agree

B: disagree

C: I don't know the Bible says.

Gee, I wonder which answer would poll the highest.

[arthurus]

Those particular pulpits are but props in a bad play.

[jimt]

How is it possible for an openly homosexual person to be a minister/priest/pastor of a CHRISTIAN church ? Can you discard the Bible and be Christian ?

I don’t get it.

[af_vet_1981]

It's a Man's World

As certain of your own poet's have said

It's A Man's World

This is a man's world, this is a man's world
But it wouldn't be nothing without a woman or a girl

You know man made a car to take us over the road
Man made the train to carry heavy loads
Man made electric lights to take us out of the dark
Man made a boat for the water just like Noah made the ark

Think about a little baby girl and a little baby boy
Man makes then happy 'cause man makes them toys
And after man has made everything, everything in the world he can
man makes money to buy some other man

[wbarmy]

what is necessarily meant by “in the pulpit”

If they are "gay" or a woman considering themselves a "pastor", then it is not a pulpit. And God will not recognize anything they do as having anything to do with Him.

[Pining_4_TX]

Every denomination that has ordained women has gone on to ordain homosexuals. Female pastors are contrary to God’s Word.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Our problem is far more that we do not bless what ought to be blessed, than that we do not curse what ought to be cursed.

[HiTech RedNeck]

don’t ‘synagogues of satan’ have pulpits... sure they do. misused, but they are pulpits.

[wbarmy]

don’t ‘synagogues of satan’ have pulpits... sure they do. misused, but they are pulpits.

I am pretty sure that the pulpit is only in Christianity. If the "synagogue of satan" has one, it is an anti-pulpit, since they are the anti-Christ.

Probably could be translated into Latin pretty easily. antepulpitum

[onedoug]

...A rabbi?

No and No.

[Albion Wilde]

I agree completely. The best pastor is a godly married man.