USA- American evangelicals are at odds with the rest of the population when it comes to gender issues. So says new Lifeway research.
According to the results, more than half of evangelical Christians – exactly 54% – said it was wrong to “identify as a different gender.” This figure was lower within the Catholic community, where 26% said it was incorrect. Among non-religious people this figure drops to 20%.
People who identified as evangelicals are nearly twice as many (61%) as non-evangelicals (32%) in saying that using hormones or sex change surgery is morally wrong.
Lifeway CEO Scott McConnell said: “Evangelical Christians are clearly in the minority on this issue. Most Americans do not perceive a moral sense in being born a man or a woman. McConnell also notes, “Most Americans reject the vision of a creator providing a genre that cannot be changed.”
“We can do different freeform changes on ourselves. We have plastic surgery, we use ways to make our teeth whiter, ways to dye our hair, get tattoos. So many Americans see gender as just another item on that list.
“This reflects a change in vision of the world in transformation,” he added. “A growing percentage of Americans do not believe in ‘good and evil.’ They do not believe that there is an absolute truth. And if there is no absolute truth, they are reluctant to talk about morality,” she said.
Lifeway’s research was applied to 1,000 Americans in September 2015.
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