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Topless ELCA Pastor at Gay Pride Parade

10/11/2021

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(Warning.  The following article contains content that is inappropriate. I have added black boxes to cover some of the picture. This is an example of how bad the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is.)

Last month bisexual ELCA pastor Dawn Bennett took to Facebook and made the public post which you can see here.  At least one ELCA bishop commented afterward with a favorable statement.  (Also shared below) 


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In the comment section ELCA Pastor Bennett writes:
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Also in the comment section is this from Brenda Bos, lesbian bishop of the ELCA's Southwest California Synod:
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How can anyone continue to support the ELCA, a denomination that allows this?  A denomination that has a "Pastor of Public Witness" who brags about having sex with her boyfriend.  A denomination that elects a transgender person as bishop of their synod. 

Evil is alive and well and it controls the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. 



See here for more articles about ELCA Rev. Dawn Bennett. 

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ELCA Pastor-to-be Strips Down to Her “Skivvies” For a Photoshoot

11/9/2017

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(Warning: Sexuality explicit language)

Elle Dowd is an ELCA seminarian at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago (LSTC) and is also part of the leadership of Decolonize Lutheranism (read about this group here). She recently wrote a blog called “Jesus and Black Lace Lingerie” where we are told:

 
“…I was at a casting call, auditioning for the chance to model a body-positive line of bras and underwear. The church has a reputation for prudishness about anything having to do with things like desire, bodies, or sex. And so me, a seminarian, a pastor-in-training, showing up ready to strip down to my skivvies for a photoshoot seems to a lot of people like a glaring (or at least interesting) contradiction.”
 
She then goes into a strange discourse about God having a body, experiences He had with his body (using intentionally provocative words and descriptions of Christ’s birth), and experience she has had with her body. Then she writes:
 
“Learning about a shockingly embodied God empowered me to reconnect to my own body in a variety of ways through therapy, yoga, running, dancing, sex...Talk about the ways in which sex has been a powerful way not only to reclaim my body and reconnect to my sexuality, but to heal from spiritual abuse perpetuated by the church? It seems unheard of.”
 
After reading Elle Dowd's blog I believe a main message she is trying to communicate is that we should celebrate our bodies. Unfortunately, that seems to mean “in whatever fashion you want, sinful or not.” And that leads us back to her lingerie photo shoot. The ELCA seminarian writes:
 
“I felt my black lacy, cheeky shorts rub against my skin underneath my jeans as I sat on that futon and talked with the designer and the photographer about being a faith leader. Then I took off my t-shirt and took some photos in my bra, feeling free and brave, knowing that if anyone found this scandalous, at least I was in good company with my Scandalous, Incarnate God.” (read here)
 
Elle's blog has been the subject of some conversations with a number of ELCA leaders on Twitter recently. Here are some of the more shocking answers to questions posted by ELCA Deacon Tara L Ulrich, that were inspired by Elle Dowd's blog (notice that Elle retweeted each one):

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ELCA Rev. Dr. Joelle Colville-Hanson, Director for Evangelical Mission for the Northeastern Iowa Synod.
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ELCA Rev. Jason P. Chesnut
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ELCA Rev. Priscilla N. Paris-Austin
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ELCA Homosexual Bishop Leads Worship at Raunchy Los Angeles Gay Pride Parade

10/26/2017

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(The following article was written by Rev. Tom Brock of pastorsstudy.org. You can follow Pastor Brock on Facebook - here and Twitter - here.)

The below video (at minute 3:26) shows Bishop Guy Erwin, the first partnered, homosexual bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, leading Lutherans in worship at LA’s gay pride parade. Marching with the Lutherans is a man in his underwear and another man in rainbow decoration portraying Martin Luther.
 
There are no words. Please pray that many will leave this denomination of abomination for a more biblical branch of Lutheranism.
 
Sincerely in Christ,
Pastor Tom Brock


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White Privilege and Topless Women

3/28/2017

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​The ELCA’s Western Iowa Synod is publicizing a "White Privilege Conference" to synod members, saying, "All are encouraged to participate." (see below) The conference is sponsored in part by the Transgender Training Institute. (see here)

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Ron Havick is an ELCA pastor at 
St. Mark's Lutheran Church in Chula Vista, California. In one of his Facebook posts, he seems to be advocating for women to be able to walk around topless in public and chiding Christians for not agreeing. Here is his post and more of his comments below. Here is the news article Pastor Havick posted. 

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The vast majority of Pastor Ron Hovick's Facebook posts contain anger at Republicans and President Trump. However, once in a while, he posts something nonpolitical like this
quote from heretic, John Dominic Crossan, about Bible stories being symbolic. What?!?! An ELCA pastor who doesn't believe the accounts of Scripture actually happened? Unbelievable!


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It's hard to come across a raging liberal Evangelical Lutheran Church in America pastor without finding that they also demonize Israel. Pastor Hovick is no exception. The post below shows his support of an extremely biased report which calls Israel an apartheid state. 
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And finally, here is ELCA Pastor Hovick swearing and name-calling. 
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