Survey: Youth See Christianity as Anti-Gay

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[The Living Church] 13 Oct 2007--The church is not helping its youth to apply the traditional biblical teaching on homosexuality in their everyday life, according to a new survey of 16-29-year-olds by The Barna Group.

In a culture in which homosexual persons and homosexuality are increasingly considered mainstream, young Christians believe the church has not helped them to apply traditional biblical teaching on homosexuality to situations such as friendships with gays and lesbians.

“In our interviews we kept encountering young people – both those inside the church and outside of it – who said that something was broken in present-day expression of Christianity,” said David Kinnaman, president of The Barna Group and co-author of the study. “Their perceptions about Christianity were not always accurate, but what surprised me was not only the severity of their frustration with Christians, but also how frequently young born-again Christians expressed some of the very same comments as young non-Christians.”