ELCA Bishop Supports Polygamy

​A few days ago a show by Bancroft TV was posted on Youtube titled "​Being Polygamous And Christian Is Not A Sin | LOVE DON’T JUDGE."

The show spotlights two women and a man who are a "throuple" - or having a sexual relationship between three people.  

Appearing on the show is Leila Ortiz, who was elected this summer as bishop of the ELCA Metropolitan Washington, D.C., Synod. (Rev. Ortiz was previously Assistant to the Bishop in the same ELCA synod.) Ortiz is interviewed, after we are told by the narrator that the trouple, “Having been asked to leave their Pentecostal church... went in search of a church that would accept their relationship." 

ELCA Bishop elect Leila Ortiz then recounted their meeting and her learning about their polygamous relationship: 

“There’s still many people who would be scandalized and would even be scandalized by my acceptance of them. And that’s okay, that’s okay. I’m very grounded in my faith.”
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“How do you judge and how do you point fingers and condemn people that don’t know any other way of being? People have been in polygamous relationships for decades, they have just been private about it. So now we are in a place where it is public. This isn’t just a fad. This is a reality that has always been.” (see video below)

This is an ELCA bishop proclaiming support for polygamous relationships. Polygamy is against God's will as He clearly outlined in Scripture. (See here) The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America has become so opposed to the Truth of God's Word that threesomes are fine. This is where the ELCA is headed and it will continue to get worse. 

The following post is from ELCA pastor Lura N. Groen:
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