ELCA Lobbies U.S. Gov't to Pay the Palestinian National Authority's Bill to ELCA's Federation

4/8/2014

Thirty-two ELCA bishops went to Washington D.C. to lobby the U.S. Congress. What was on their agenda? They are attempting to get U.S. taxpayers to pay the Palestinian National Authority's bills to Augusta Victoria Hospital which is owned and operated by the Lutheran World Federation (LWF). The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) is a member of the Lutheran World Federation and helps fund the organization. So in essence, the ELCA wants the United States to pay them for the Palestinian Authority's bills. The Palestinian Authority owes over 18 million Euros ($25,000,000 U.S.) to the East Jerusalem hospital. The ELCA press release reports -

“Bishops will request that members of Congress urge the U.S. Agency for International Development to designate a portion of its bilateral support to the Palestinian National Authority to paying its debt to Augusta Victoria Hospital. The hospital is a program of The Lutheran World Federation, a global communion of 142 churches representing more than 70 million Christians in 79 countries. The ELCA is the communion's only member church from the United States.”

For other policies for which the ELCA was advocating, read here.

3 Comments

Didaskalos link

4/9/2014 10:03:35 pm

Here’s what you *won’t* see Leftist bishops of the ELCA, a wholly owned secular subsidiary of the Democratic Party, lobbying for:

1. the protection of the lives of preborn babies, all created in the image of God and known by Him before they were born . . . or aborted (Psalm 139)

2. an end to unwilling-taxpayer funding of abortion (that would set a bad example for the ELCA, which funds abortion for any reason up to 20 weeks in its self-funded health care plan)

3. God-ordained, Bible-defined marriage

4. Israel’s right to exist (the Hamas Covenant says Israel doesn't have that right) and resist terrorist attacks

5. religious liberties and conscience protections guaranteed by the Constitution to all citizens

Congressional Democrats must snicker up their sleeves every time a contingent of self-important liberal clerics makes a pilgrimage to DC to “advise” them.

The ELCA “advisors” and their congressional advisees would be better off spending their time contemplating Isaiah: "Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter. Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight."

Chemnitz

4/10/2014 12:07:28 am

Create a program without input or oversight from the taxpayers, let a foreign government run up a huge debt, and
then make the taxpayers pay for it -- nice work if you can get it.

John Klingler

4/10/2014 04:53:03 am

I'd like to know who they talked with so we know who to flood with protest calls and email.

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