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| | glbtq >> social sciences >> Evangelical Christians |
 | | Evangelical Christians, who tend to be fundamentalists and socially conservative, have not been welcoming to glbtq people, and have indeed campaigned against glbtq rights, often as members of New Right political coalitions, such as the Moral Majority or Christian Coalition. |
 | | Baptist churches, spiritual descendants of the Anabaptists (re-Baptizers) of sixteenth-century Germany, require baptism in water as an outward sign of salvation, and teach that salvation is permanent (that is, one cannot accept Christ and then "backslide" into sin again). |
 | | Holiness-Wesleyan churches follow their Methodist roots in their insistence that the Christian be noticeably distinct from "the world." They often mandate every detail of the believer's clothing, hairstyle, jewelry, church participation, and leisure activities, with special attention paid to observing the Sabbath (refraining from work on Sunday) and practicing temperance (that is, abstaining from alcohol). |
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