"I've been praying for Trump to die" says ELCA Pastor

9/23/2025

ELCA pastor Paul Drees posted a video on social media (see below) where he says "I've been praying for Trump to die" and then pastor Drees tries to justify his position.

Paul Drees is featured in this month's Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's Living Lutheran Magazine. (see here) In the Living Lutheran article the aforementioned video is addressed.

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9/29/2025 03:28:14 pm

The "leadership" of the world-pleasing, ear-tickling, proudly libertine ELCA should be soberly considering their own dates with death. Those who promote God-defying sins to children do not, absent repentance, have a prayer. "Many will follow their evil teaching and shameful immorality. And because of these teachers, the way of truth will be slandered.” [2 Peter 2:2}

==> Martin Luther on 1 John 3:4 — “We are all sinners, and at times we all fall into sin. But when true Christians fall, they soon come back, turn around, and struggle against the sin so that they won’t offend their neighbor…even if Christians are completely surrounded by sin, they should still fight against it. Some people think they’re Christians because they’ve been baptized. These people give their desires free rein and don’t care about conquering their sins. They merely follow their own cravings.” (LW, 30:269)

Luther on 1 Thess. 4:3-5 — "All young people should avoid casual sex and preserve their purity. They should resolve to strengthen themselves against lust and sexual passions by reading and meditating on a psalm or some other portion of God’s Word…You must pray diligently and strive to resist the desires of your sinful nature.” (LW, 4:334)

Luther on Genesis 2:23 — “The word *woman* presents an amazing and lovely picture of the institution of marriage. Everything the husband has also belongs to his wife. Not only do they share their assets, but also their children, income, food, drink, bed, and home. Besides that, they are to be one in spirit. The only difference between a husband and wife is in their anatomy. Otherwise, they are the same.” (LW, 1:137)

Luther on Gen. 19:24-5 — “Arrogant and stubborn people despise the Word of God and laugh at well-intentioned words of caution…We must guard against this false teaching. It’s not enough for these people to bring destruction on themselves. They intend to drag us down with them. Like the people of Sodom, they don’t realize that their sins will soon be punished.” (LW,3:239)

==> You are not your desires:
“Homosexuality” is a construct that denies people’s humanity
— https://wng.org/opinions/you-are-not-your-desires-1717190317

“… we Christians do not worship our nerve endings. We do not worship our sexuality. We are not our sexuality. In fact, now, at the start of so-called “Pride Month,” is a good time to say it aloud for everyone to read and hear: The modern idea of homosexuality is a myth born of ideology. It is, in other words, a “construct.” It is a humanistic way of seeing and organizing the world that one easily cabins and confines oneself into to understand and interpret the world.

The problem for modern sexual identitarians, let’s call him or her the “homosexual,” is that homosexuality, as our society understands the term, does not actually exist.

“Homosexuality” is a sociological description of a phenomenological encounter of experiencing same-sex desires. To make it an ideology of identity politics is to wrap an individual’s entire existence around it. It is yet another ism. But our bodies tell us that homosexuality does not really exist as an all-defining construct. Why? Because our bodies are inherently other-oriented, regardless of one’s desires. For homosexuality to exist as a discrete reality would mean the end of our species.

Homosexuality is really just homosexualism. It is an ideology. It is not who you are. Why? Because regardless of the pattern of one’s sexual desires, if you are a man, your body is meant for a wife. If you are a woman, regardless of your sexual desires, it is intended for a husband.
[…]
“ … same-sex desire is intrinsically disordered. It is sinful. The ontology of human nature is the greatest refutation of homosexuality. Males and females may experience a pattern of fallen sexual desires. But their bodies are not homosexual. Their bodies are very much still complementary. A homosexual-identifying man and a homosexual-identifying woman are not homosexuals. They are homo sapiens whose desires are at odds with the telos of their bodies. . . “

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