Known Pagan goddess is Actually Holy Spirit Claims ELCA Seminary Professor

People scoff when conservative Lutherans point to goddess worship happening in the ELCA.  The scoffers either do not believe it or think it is very isolated.  They are wrong. (see here)

Rev. Dr. Wil Gafney is Associate Professor of Hebrew and Old Testament at The Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia, an ELCA Seminary.  She is an ordained Episcopal priest who teaches the future leaders and pastors of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. (see her school bio here)  In a Dr. Gafney blog dated February 11, 2013 the seminary professor compiled some questions she would like to ask the prophet Elijah.  She said:

“When you killed the four hundred fifty prophets of Baal but not the four hundred prophets of Asherah was it because you really didn’t mind a little goddess worship on the side?  Are we feminists right in saying that Asherah was just the Canaanite articulation of the Holy Spirit and not really another God?” (see here)

First, Dr. Gafney doesn't know if the prophets of Asherah were spared by Elijah that day or if they were even present at the referred to gathering.  We do know that 1 Kings 19:1 says Elijah “had killed all the prophets with the sword.”  So it seems more likely that they were killed with the prophets of Baal if they were there.

Secondly, and the reason for my blog, did you hear professor Gafney reveal that she believes: Asherah is the Holy Spirit, not another god?   This is completely false.  Yet that is what she publicly proclaims.  I can not believe the ELCA would allow a professor who thinks this way to teach their future leaders. 

The Bible says this about Asherah:

• Judges 3:7 - So the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord.  They forgot the Lord their God, and served the Baals and Asherahs.
  
  
• 2 Kings 21: 6, 7 – He (King Manasseh) did much evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke Him to anger.  He even set a carved image of Asherah that he had made, in the house of which the Lord had said to David and to Solomon his son, “In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever;"
  
  

Here are just a few verses from God's Word speaking about Asherah poles (likely “a sacred tree or pole that stood near Canaanite religious locations to honor the Ugaritic mother-goddess Asherah.” (see here):

• 1 Kings 14:15 - And the Lord will strike Israel, so that it will be like a reed swaying in the water.  He will uproot Israel from this good land that he gave to their ancestors and scatter them beyond the Euphrates River, because they aroused the Lord’s anger by making Asherah poles.
  
  
• 2 Chronicles 19:3 - There is, however, some good in you, for you have rid the land of the Asherah poles and have set your heart on seeking God.
  
  

Clearly the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob wanted His people to have nothing to do with Asherah.  It is plain to see from these verses that Asherah is not the Holy Spirit, as this ELCA seminary professor is trying to get us to believe.  Worshiping Asherah is the worship of a false goddess.

So, if it's wrong (and it is) why isn't the ELCA leadership stopping it and why are they letting people who believe it be instructors in their seminaries?