God’s latest brouhaha: Lutherans to accept non-celibate gays for ordination
”On Friday, I just felt like this was a great dream and I’d wake up and it won’t be real. This morning, especially right after I preached, the emotional came whirling up. I couldn’t sing. I was just filled with tears. It was wonderful.”
Anita Hill, pastor of Saint Paul-Reformation Lutheran Church, reacting to the ELCA vote to lift a ban on gay and lesbian clergy. Hill is reported to be in a same-sex relationship and the congregation had to ”unofficially” ordain through a vote of 181 to noting. (WCCO)
”We have always welcomed gays and lesbians to our church, but according to the word of god, we do not believe they are to be ordained. I am not speaking out against the gay and lesbian community, but I am speaking out against the ordination of gays and lesbians as pastors and bishops and leaders of the church – and the blessing of same-sex marriages.”
Richard Mahan, pastor of St Timothy Lutheran Church, doing a bad job of explaining why he has decided to cover up the word ”Lutheran” on their sign after leaders of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America voted to remove a ban on gay clergy and recognize gay marriages.
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