>A new organization called Church Clarity, whose website was launched just recently on October 18, 2017, aims to encourage churches to be clear and transparent in their LGBTQ policies by scoring each church based on their websites. While it may be easy to believe that this is an attempt to shame on a public platform, churches with anti-LGBTQ policies, it is not the case, and the founders of Church Clarity constantly make that known. Nor is it their goal to push churches to change their policies. Instead, they simply want churches and pastors to be transparent and clearly define just how welcome LGBTQ people are, so that problems can be avoided on both ends later on. It has become increasingly common among churches, especially evangelical churches, to practise ambiguity when it comes to making their policies public. “Clarity is elusive,” Church Clarity says, and it is not right for people to constantly be in doubt of just how welcome they are in their own church.
https://www.churchclarity.org/church/lifechurch-1148
Unclear: Non-Affirming in their LGBTQ Policy FAQ, Week 1 Sermon Text
Excerpt:
"Here's what the Bible says, is homosexuality a sin? In the Old Testament, we are told that when a man lays with another man as a woman, the Bible says it is detestable. New Testament, Romans Chapter 1:24 says: Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another... Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion. Romans 1:24, 26-27. Scripture is very, very clear; this is a sin."
Its Score is Unclear because this church's actively enforced policy is not located on website's primary pages, but embedded in a sermon dated February 15, 2016.
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