A Lutheran pro-homosexuality organization reports that an ELCA bishop, the third one Exposing the ELCA has highlighted this year, is advocating for gay marriage.  LCNA says, “Richard Graham, ELCA Metropolitan Washington, D.C. Synod, will be attending the rally in favor of marriage equality . . .”  The bishop was reported to be attending a rally and conducting “lobbying visits to legislators in support of marriage equality bill in Maryland.” (see here)
(see the other ELCA bishops advocacy actions here and here)

In the same vain, a keynote speaker at this summer’s 2012 ELCA National Youth Gathering went to her state legislature (CO) to speak in support of “civil unions for GLBTQ couples.”  (see here)  This is the same person (ELCA pastor, Nadia Bolz-Weber) who recently performed a transgender renaming service at her ELCA church.  (see here)

So to all those ELCA members who think that the actions and policies of the ELCA will not affect you, what to you think now?  To those of you sending your kids to the ELCA Youth Gathering, do you realize you are sending them into the lion's den?  To those of you who think the actions of the ELCA leadership go against God Almighty’s will, how do you justify your contentment continuing to be part of this denomination?
 


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Jared Richards
03/01/2012 2:33pm

"It is clear that marraige, as an institution, should only interest the state because of children and should be viewed as a purely private matter so long as it is childless." -- Bertrand Russell, "On Sexual Ethics," WHY I AM NOT A CHRISTIAN: AND OTHER ESSAYS ON RELIGION AND RELATED SUBJECTS, ed. Paul Edwards (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1957), 168-178.

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03/01/2012 8:42pm

Yet another confirmation that leaving our ELCA congregation was the right decision.

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Chad
03/10/2012 12:23pm

Before same-sex marraige was invented, gay couples could simply break up whenever they wished. Now married gay couples must go to court to break up, and that has been a great boon for divorce attorneys. In short, wherever filthy lucre is involved (see Titus 1:7-11), the ELCA stands behind it.

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Gadfly
03/17/2012 12:56pm

"...how do you justify your contentment [in] continuing to be part of this denomination?" Martin Buber said, "[I]f there were a devil he would not be the one who decided against God but he that in all eternity did not decide." (I AND THOU, trans. Walter Kaufmann [1923; New York: Touchstone, 1996], 101).

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Jared Richards
03/22/2012 4:03pm

"...how do you justify your contentment [in] continuing to be part of this denomination?" The Bible says: "Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil." (Ex.23:2).

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Nick
03/20/2012 9:10pm

Where is it noted that Nadia Bolz-Weber is a speaker at the 2012 ELCA Youth Gathering? I have only seen press release of one speaker and one musician.

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03/20/2012 9:30pm

Hi Nick,

Here is Nadia Bolz-Weber's schedual for the year 2012 (from her website). It shows that she is a keynote speaker at the ELCA Youth Gathering. http://www.sarcasticlutheran.com/speaking-dates

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