Blessed be our rights: 20 American Christian churches, ranked on LGBTQ+ supporthttps://www.advocate.com/news/religion/christian-churches-lgbtq-affirming 🔗Dawn Ennis (24 July 2026)
When it comes to spirituality, researchers have found most lesbian, gay, and bisexual folks feel pretty much the same as everyone else: A majority believe people have a soul, they experience awe in nature, and more of us believe in either the existence of God or some kind of inexplicable supernatural force than those who don't.
But when it comes to faith in religious institutions, a majority of those same queers say churches do more harm than good, which is why we've put together this list of 20 major Christian churches, from the do-gooders to the do-harmers.
And sorry, we don't know how transgender, nonbinary, pansexual, asexual, intersex, or people of other marginalized gender and sexual identities responded to that survey, because, shocker, researchers didn't include them.
1. Metropolitan Community Churches (MCC)
2. Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA)
3. United Church of Christ
4. Presbyterian Church U.S.A.
5. Episcopal Church
6. United Methodist Church
7. The Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
8. The Alliance of Baptists
9. Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
10. Religious Society of Friends, aka The Quakers
11. Roman Catholic Church
12. Eastern Orthodox Catholic Church
13. American Baptist Churches USA
14. National Baptist Convention USA
15. The Church of the Nazarene
16. African Methodist Episcopal Church
17. Southern Baptist Convention
18. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints aka Mormons
19. Pentecostals
20. Seventh-day Adventist Church
