We sometimes get emails from pastors and congregants telling us that the score we’ve given to a church does not accurately reflect what happens in their church. That is why we confine our scope purely to any online evidence available on a church’s website, on its denomination’s or network’s website, and any pastor statements.

We cannot score based on the “reality of what happens in their congregations,” but rather based on their online presence. It is a “communication” score above anything else. Our goal is to score churches for how clearly they communicate their actively enforced policies. If that was so, then we would certainly enable people to post “personal reviews” of their experiences in churches, much in the way that Yelp does. Although this is a common byproduct of our public database, it is actually not our primary goal.

Some people assume that our database exists to point LGBT people to LGBT-affirming churches, for instance, or to warn them about non-affirming churches.

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