Survey Shows the Church Can’t Even Define Family Anymore

Apparently, we now live in a world where less than half of “regular churchgoers” can coherently define the word family. Family Research Council’s (FRC) latest 2025 survey reveals that 68 % will say, “Marriage is between one man and one woman”—yet only 46 % think “family” means husband + wife + children (plus kin).

That means nearly one in four churchgoers espouse a biblical view of marriage without bothering to connect it to biblical family structure. It’s like people believe in gravity but deny it pulls things downward.

But that glaring inconsistency is only the beginning. The survey, itself alarming, serves as evidence that the church has become a casualty in its own culture war.

So let’s tell the rest of the story—the part no official press release will ever admit: the pro-life movement, long the moral backbone of evangelicalism, has been systematically hijacked—first by social justice elites, next by institutional evangelicals, and finally by bottomless pragmatism that treats doctrine like a buffet.

The ERLC, for example, once platformed Charles Camosy, a Catholic animal-rights apologist who equated factory farming with human life, promoting a “consistent life ethic” that slides seamlessly into support for redistributive economics and ostensible “justice” theology.

When criticism exploded, the ERLC scrubbed the video and called it an “accident” — as if the seed of the rot was accidental. No, this was deliberate: implant your guest, then quietly say you never intended it. Welcome to evangelical gatekeeping.