Most LGBT Christians Don’t Feel Free To Be Themselves In Church

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According to the 2021 Safeguarding LGBT+ Christians survey, in the UK, only a minority of the 754 respondents felt safe to be themselves in their local church. The survey was conducted by the Ozanne Foundation, an advocacy group that works with religious institutions to "eliminate discrimination based on sexuality or gender." The report found that although an overwhelming majority of the participants, 68.71%, said they regularly go to church, only 36.86% feel safe to be themselves in their local church. 17.40% of the respondents said they used to express their sexual orientation in their church but no longer feel safe about it. Reverend Paul Bayes, a former chair of the Ozanne Foundation, acknowledged the survey's finding by saying "Silence has a price, and we now see clearly who has been paying it." Dr. Sarah Carr, the research's independent monitor, mentioned that belief systems could be beneficial for the mental health of many individuals but the LGBTQ community might experience the opposite as “so many have experienced exclusion or judgment by various faith communities.”

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Report: Most LGBT Christians Don’t Feel Free to be Themselves in Church

Location: UK