ELCA Says They Sinned For Refusing to Ordain Openly LGBTQIA+ Siblings

ELCA Says They Sinned For Refusing to Ordain Openly LGBTQIA+ 'Siblings'

11/26/2019

"Before 2009, our denomination sinfully refused to ordain any of our openly LGBTQIA+ siblings, so we believe it is important to acknowledge and lament this barrier."

So the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America recently declared on their Facebook page. (See screenshot on the right)

That is wrong. But what was sinful is when the ELCA voted to allow the ordination of practicing, monogamous homosexuals. It is a position that has harmed many people.

Is being monogamous even a requirement anymore or was it ever? And if the ELCA was sinning because they did not ordain practicing Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer/Questioning, Intersex, and Asexual/Allies (LGBTQIA+) people, it stands to reason that the ELCA believes that those that do not celebrate these behaviors are also guilty of sin.

One must also consider as to when the ELCA voted to ordain people who identify as bisexual and transgender?

After the ELCA comment, a few posts later, the ELCA recommended resources that are made by an LBGTQIA+ organization. (See below)

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Facebook statements were made in the comment section of the ELCA-posted video (below), celebrating "the process of inviting more than just cis-men to ordained ministry."

2 Comments

John

11/27/2019 10:14:02 am

In ELCA newspeak, the only sin is to rebuke sin, the only crime is to fight crime, and the only thing they know about God is that they don't know Him.

Well, at least they got the last one right.

Didaskalos link

11/27/2019 11:39:32 am

At the Sellout of '09, only the credulous believed that the ELCA wasn't already scheming to dragoon its pastors and members into "Got my mind right, boss" acquiescence to Bible-flouting sexual sin.

"[Convention] Resolution #3 states “that in the implementation of these [homosexuality-blessing] resolutions, the ELCA commits itself to bear one another’s burdens, love the neighbor, and respect the bound consciences of all.”

“During one of my visits to the ELCA headquarters, the national mission director took me into a closet that held the congregations' responses to the first sexuality study of the ELCA. She said, and I quote, ‘we are going to ram this s____ down their (congregations') throat.’. . .
“I and many faithful pastors suffered mightily at the hands of the ELCA. In fact nearly every faithful pastor I knew as Assistant to the Bishop suffers or has suffered as a result of ELCA pressure on their ministry to conform. In the ELCA almost anything is tolerated except not accepting their lgbt policy.”
-- http://lutherancore.website/2019/05/14/pithy-responses-to-cores-april-letter-to-the-director/

"How can the ELCA say that 2019 is the tenth anniversary of LGBTQIA+ persons’ being able to serve *freely* in the church when what was actually voted on and approved at the 2009 Churchwide Assembly was only the ordination of persons in *publicly accountable, life-long, monogamous same-gender relationships*?”
-- http://lutherancore.website/2019/11/12/elca-answer-the-question/

“..those orthodox souls who remain in ‘evolving’ churches..belong to and support churches that increasingly depart from right teaching. Indeed, those churches suppress it. And it will get worse in the future.”
https://www.firstthings.com/article/2018/10/elca-hits-bottom

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