Saturday, October 13, 2012

Promoting Homosexual Marriage Hasn't Improved the Protestant Church's Lot

Edit: here's a graph from Stella Borealis about membership rates of ELCA (Evangelical Luthern Church of America), which shows how well they've done for themselves by resonating with the Zeigeist, ordaining women, open homosexuals and promoting Sodom.  The results for parts of the Catholic Church which similarly collaborate with evil in this way are also declining rapidly as wealthy, albeit elderly Liberal parishioners die out.  The end is near.   Stats to decadent Lutheran source, here:

Year
Members
Change
%
Congregations
Change
%
1987
5,288,048


11,133


1988
5,251,534
-36,514
-0.69%
11,120
-13
-0.12%
1989
5,238,798
-12,736
-0.24%
11,067
-53
-0.48%
1990
5,240,739
+1,941
0.04%
11,087
+20
0.18%
1991
5,245,177
+4,438
0.08%
11,074
-13
-0.12%
1992
5,234,568
-10,609
-0.20%
11,055
-19
-0.17%
1993
5,212,785
-21,783
-0.42%
11,023
-32
-0.29%
1994
5,199,048
-13,737
-0.26%
10,973
-50
-0.45%
1995
5,190,489
-8,559
-0.16%
10,955
-18
-0.16%
1996
5,187,363
-3,126
-0.06%
10,936
-19
-0.17%
1997
5,185,055
-2,308
-0.04%
10,889
-47
-0.43%
1998
5,178,225
-6,830
-0.13%
10,862
-27
-0.25%
1999
5,149,668
-28,557
-0.55%
10,851
-11
-0.10%
2000
5,125,919
-23,749
-0.46%
10,816 
-35
-0.32%
2001
5,099,877
-26,042
-0.51%
10,766
-50
-0.46%
2002*
5,038,006
-61,871
-1.21%
10,721
-45
-0.42%
2003
4,984,925
-53,081
-1.05%
10,657
-64
-0.60%
2004
4,930,429
-54,496
-1.09%
10,585
-72
-0.68%
2005
4,850,776
-79,653
-1.62%
10,549
-36
-0.34%
2006
4,774,203
-76,573
-1.58%
10,470
-79
-0.75%
2007
4,709,956
-64,247
-1.34%
10,448
-22
-0.21%
2008
4,633,887
-76,069
-1.61%
10,396
-52
-0.49%
2009
4,543,037
-90,850
-1.99%
10,348
-48
-0.46%
2010
4,272,688
-270,349
-5.95%
10,008
-340
-3.29%

* Only congregations existing on December 31 are included in the overall membership statistics. Prior to 2002, all congregations that existed during the course of the previous year were included.

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