re: Why have churches started allowing gay preachers?

You would think it’s a $ move, but the denoms that went that route have lost considerably more members than others.

I think the PCUSA (largest Presbyterian denom), went from something like 3 million members in 1990 to around 1.25 million by the 2020s

Lot of these denoms are just living off the last bits of institutional equity they had, the carcass of the dead church.