A recent survey was conducted among clergy of mostly non-evangelical churches.
The survey found that a full 51% of those clergy support legalized abortion.
Via Because I Said So:
The research group surveyed senior clergy from the United Methodist Church, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, American Baptist Churches USA, Presbyterian Church USA, Episcopal Church, United Church of Christ, and Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).
Almost half (48%) of all surveyed clergy from these seven largest mainline denominations say they are liberal while 34 percent identify themselves as conservative. Also, 56 percent of mainline clergy identify with or lean toward the Democratic Party, compared to 34 percent of those who affiliate with the Republican Party, results show.
With the exception of United Methodist and American Baptist clergy, a majority of clergy in every denomination identify as liberal.
[ a majority of clergy in every one of those non-evangelical denominations identify as liberal.]
Clergy from United Church of Christ (74%) and the Episcopal Church (66%) are most likely to say they are liberal.
Also according to the survey:
"Two-thirds of mainline clergy disagree that "the Bible is the inerrant word of God, both in matters of faith and in historic, geographical, and other secular matters."
Which serves to explain these other findings:
* Sixty-five percent support either same-sex marriage or civil unions.
* Fifty-four percent do not support the teaching of creationism alongside evolution in public school biology classes.
* Forty-three percent disagree that evolution is the best explanation for the origins of life on earth.
* Seventy-eight percent agree that the federal government should do more to solve social problems
An important note:
Nearly every one of those non-evangelical church denominations listed above are also board members of CMEP [Churches For Middle East Peace].
Don't let the name throw you, CMEP advocates ethnic cleansing. In particular, the ethnic cleansing of hundreds of thousands of Israelis from their own land.
Other "board members" of CMEP include the Mennonite Central Committee and the American Friends Service . Those are the two church organizations that hosted Iranian dictator Ahmadinejad for "talks and dinner".
Stephen Sizer is the radical senior cleric of Christ Church in Surrey, England. Sizer slanders Christians who support Israel. Approves of the anti-Israel boycotts, and is freinds with a radical Islamist cleric named Ismail Patel, who supports Hamas, Iran, and Syria.
Mellanie Phillips wrote the following last March:
Last weekend the Revd Stephen Sizer, vicar of Christ Church, Virginia Water appeared at an anti-Israel meeting with an Islamist called Ismail Patel. Patel has not only accused Israel of ‘genocide’ and ‘war crimes’ but considers Disney to be a Jewish plot and supports Hamas, Iran and Syria. Sizer is a virulent opponent of Christian Zionism and of Israel, which he has said he hopes will disappear just as did the apartheid regime in South Africa. He has also applauded Iranian President Ahmadinejad for having ‘looked forward to the day when Zionism ceased to exist’. Nevertheless, the appearance of an Anglican churchman on a pro-Islamist platform in Britain is a new and significant development. The Church of England recently banned its clergy from joining the BNP; should it not equally ban them from siding with the forces of Islamofascism?
What causes these radical clerics to embrace such heretical views and anti-Israel sentiment? The answer is in one of the findings of the survey referenced above:
The vast majority do not believe the Bible is the divinely inspired inerrant Word of God. Otherwise what part of Jeremiah 16:14,15 do they not understand?
This is also the main problem with "dhimmi" politicians and diplomats who pressure Israel not to build or live in their own land or capital city of Jerusalem:
They are in willful denial of the truth.
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