Is LGBTQ Bias Driving Away Young Evangelicals?

For Ethan Stalker, the break unfolded in a now familiar way. On March 18, 2019, Stalker announced on a blog post he was gay. The next day, he got invited to a coffee meeting with a pastor at the evangelical church in New York City where he was serving as a lay leader. The pastor told him he no longer qualified to be a small group leader. His life choices, he was told, were not "God's best" for him. The church allowed the 25-year-old, who works in marketing for healthcare companies, to continue to volunteer on its broadcast production team.