Another mainstream denomination starts to circle the drain:
Seven pastors who work in the San Francisco Bay area and were barred from serving in America's largest Lutheran group because of a policy that required gay clergy to be celibate are being welcomed into the denomination.
It's always San Francisco, isn't it?
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America will add six of the pastors to its clergy roster at a service at St. Mark's Lutheran Church in San Francisco on Sunday. Another pastor who was expelled from the church, but was later reinstated, will participate in the service.
The group is among the first gay, bisexual or transgender Lutheran pastors to be reinstated or added to the rolls of the ELCA since the organization voted last year to lift the policy requiring celibacy.
Churches can now hire noncelibate gay clergy who are in committed relationships.
After all, we can't let Biblical teaching get in the way of their happiness.
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*SIGH* No words.
The ELCA has been circling the drain for years. It will be a truly sad day if the Missouri Synod goes the same route.
Time to think about being something other than a "Lutheran". I think I would be about ready to bail out.
Mr. Richard
Consider the Anglican Catholic Church (not to be confused with the Episcopalian church or the Church of England). The ACC is traditional and liturgical. :-)
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