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Actions Taken by ELCA Leadership at Synod Assemblies

8/2/2012

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The ELCA online publication (likely the print magazine also) The Lutheran published another article highlighting some of the actions taken by ELCA synods this year at their synod assemblies. (see Exposing the ELCA’s blog containing The Lutheran’s first report here) Below are the most troubling, pertinent, non-Biblical, disappointing and liberal actions taken by the ELCA’s leadership from my point of view:

The Grand Canyon Synod,
- “Concluded that the Arizona SB 1070 Immigration Law is inconsistent with collective Christian beliefs and is harmful to the needs of Arizona, exhorting members to advocate for immigration reform that is ‘comprehensive, fair, humane, compassionate, and which safeguards the unity of families.’"

The Lower Susquehanna Synod,
- “Commended the Peace Not Walls Campaign, an ELCA churchwide strategy focused on contributing to peace with justice in the Middle East. Suggested that congregations study the issues in the Middle East; pray and reach out to the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land; and, if pilgrimages are being arranged, to visit biblical sites, meet with both Israelis and Palestinians, and learn from Lutherans living in that land today.”  

The Delaware-Maryland Synod,
- “Encouraged its congregations to study the Civil Marriage Protection Act, which extends legal protection for civil marriage to all couples in Maryland. Asked the synod to offer forums so members can study the issues involved in light of the ELCA social statement ‘Human Sexuality: Gift and Trust.’"
- “Called upon Congress and U.S. President Barack Obama to support the Uniting American Families Act, which would enact ‘inclusive, comprehensive immigration reform legislation that ends the long-standing discrimination against gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender immigrant families.’"

The Southwest California Synod,
- “Encouraged its congregations and members to contact their elected officials, urging them to give ‘moral priority to programs that protect the life and dignity of poor and vulnerable people’ and to ‘review and consider tax revenues, military spending and entitlements in the search for reduced deficits but not at the expense of vulnerable poor people.’"

The Metropolitan Chicago Synod,
- “Supported the Illinois Religious Freedom and Marriage Fairness Act; called upon its congregations and members to welcome, care for and support same-gender couples and their families and to advocate for their legal protection.”
- “Recommended that a task force be created to examine the synod's financial dealings with area banking institutions with regard to social justice and corporate social responsibility concerns.”

The East Central Synod of Wisconsin,
- “Sought greater participation in the Peace Not Walls Campaign to help bring peace to the Middle East.”

The Northeastern Ohio Synod,
- “Directed its council to establish a Creation Care Task Force to help congregations deal with issues of climate change.”

The Southeastern Synod,
- “Affirmed the work of the ELCA Washington Office and Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service regarding immigration reform.”
- “Requested that the legislative bodies of Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi and Tennessee place an immediate moratorium on the administration of the death penalty until such time that it can be fully prohibited by law in those states.”

The Southwestern Minnesota Synod,
- “Indefinitely postponed voting on a resolution to express grave concern regarding a proposed Minnesota state constitutional amendment that would define marriage as ‘only a union of one man and one woman.’"

The Virginia Synod,
- “Opposed asking the ELCA Churchwide Assembly to make constitutional changes to allow a ‘new category of congregation membership for those members who disagree by faith or conscience with decisions of the churchwide organization.’"

The Southern Ohio Synod,
- “Voted to ask the ELCA presiding bishop and Church Council to contact President Barack Obama and Congress, urging the U.S. and its allies to work with the leaders of Iran for a peaceful resolution to the conflict over nuclear proliferation.”

The Upper Susquehanna Synod,
- “Voted to create a task force to discuss the justice issues surrounding the natural gas industry and to make available resources to address the complexities of horizontal slickwater hydraulic fracturing; memorialized the 2013 Churchwide Assembly to create its own task force on this subject.”

(see article here)

10 Comments
Rev. Dr. Mark D. Isaacs
8/3/2012 10:41:00 am

So in other words, if you are not a raging leftist and an Obama Democratic Party operative you can't be an ELCA Lutheran. No wonder people are fleeing mainline denominations and organized religion!

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Leonard Johnson
8/4/2012 04:39:54 am

Please do not tar the Luth. Ch. Missouri Synod with that brush.

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Didaskalos
8/4/2012 12:12:04 am

Whenever one reads accounts of the agenda and public pronouncements of today's Ichabod Lutheran Church in America, they're indistinguishable from the agendas of secular organizations like the Democratic Party, Amnesty International, NOW, NARAL, and a host of other like-minded left-leaning groups.

Such priorities are now sadly, wholly expected from the former Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, which in its furious backpedaling from the Bible has made itself one in spirit, mind, and deed with the world whose approval it has long coveted.

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rhema link
8/4/2012 03:08:39 am

Soon to be heartily and publicly approved by the "Bound conscience for me, but not for thee" Office of the ELCA:

The Virginia Synod, - “Opposed asking the ELCA Churchwide Assembly to make constitutional changes to allow a ‘new category of congregation membership for those members who disagree by faith or conscience with decisions of the churchwide organization.’"

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Leonard Johnson
8/4/2012 03:12:52 am

The Leftmost Wing of the Democrat Party at Prayer. Were there any resolutions decrying the abomination of abortion, or seeking justive for the unborn?

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Steve Bliss
8/4/2012 04:09:29 am

You forgot that every other Minnesota synod voted in favor of very similar resolutions regarding the proposed marriage amendment in Minnesota. Southwest Minnesota was actually the only one of the six Minnesota synods to not vote in favor of opposing the amendment.

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Janet Muldoon
8/7/2012 03:32:31 am

From Matthew CH 19 4 And He(Christ) answered and said to them, “Have you not read that He who made[a] them at the beginning ‘made them male and female,’[b] 5 and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’?[c] 6 So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate"
Are they illiterate ? We have to be either for Christ or against Him. That is what defines a Christian verses a nonChristian.

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Rob Erikson
8/4/2012 05:18:14 am

Anyone reading this litany of mendacity will immediately understand why the ELCA is a "dead church walking." Almost none of those "resolutions" mean what the average reader thinks they mean.

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Dave from Minnesota
8/4/2012 06:59:11 am

Didaskalos, the reason old legacy Protestent churches such as the ELCA reflect the views of secular leftist groups, is that liberals turn everything political. They use every organization they belong to, to promote their causes. Did you ever wonder why labor unions, including teacher unions, promote abortion?

The ELCA has turned into a social club that liberals use to promote their causes. One reason the ELCA will eventually all but die out, is that the next generation of liberals will see NARAL, Democrat Party, Planned Parenthood, etc, serve their purposes just as well, but those groups will allow their members to sleep in on Sundays and only have annual membership dues, verses a collection plate handed to them every week.

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Diidaskalos link
8/10/2012 03:37:01 am

It has always bemused me to see the NEA take a stand for "reproductive justice," the euphemism du jour for abortion. As one pro-life teacher put it, "NEA, where's your prudence? Abortion kills future students."

To see the ELCA provide abortions up to 20 weeks for any reason in its health care plan goes beyond bemusement, though. It's anti-Biblical barbarism.

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