> ...the official position of all the major, conservative churches... Isn't there a massive long tail of unaffiliated or "nondenominational" churches in the US

> ...the official position of all the major, conservative churches... Isn't there a massive long tail of unaffiliated or "nondenominational" churches in the US? You'd miss that if you're only looking at surveys of official denominational positions. > and the local Lutheran churches also see their USA counterparts as more towards radical/"extremist" Which counterparts? Aren't there like three biggish Lutheran denominations in the US? IIRC, one is quite liberal.