Targeting youth: Living Lutheran magazine’s “queerest” issue yet

Targeting youth: Living Lutheran magazine’s 'queerest' issue yet

8/2/2021

(The following article was written by Rev. Tom Brock of pastorsstudy.org. You can follow Pastor Brock on Facebook - here and Twitter - here.)

Living Lutheran, the national magazine of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, is ever printing articles promoting the LGBTQIA+ agenda while never allowing a conservative viewpoint to be heard.

Witness the June/July 2021 issue. I’ve never seen so many pro-gay articles in one church magazine. First, in its “I’m a Lutheran” column, the magazine highlights a person from the LGBT community. Next is an article by lesbian Pastor Emmy Kegler. Then an article about a California ELCA congregation which helps LGBT people who have experienced “religious rejection” by the Church, which I assume means someone told them that homosexual behavior is sinful. Then there is a disturbing article about a summer camp that is helping youth accept their homosexuality and transgenderism. Lastly are the “Highly recommended” books for the month, a list of seven books, all of which promote the liberal view on homosexuality and, again, not one representing the traditional Christian point of view. Notice how youth are targeted with some of the book recommendations: “Made, known, loved: developing LGBTQ-inclusive youth ministry”, “Outlove: a queer Christian survival story”, “Queerfully and wonderfully made: A guide for LGBTQ+ Christian teens”, and “Welcoming and affirming: A guide to supporting and working with LGBTQ+ Christian youth”,

One would think they are reading a gay pride magazine but, no, this is the official magazine of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. The ELCA voted in 2009 to ordain practicing homosexuals and to allow for homosexual “marriages”. Back then the vote was somewhat close with 66 percent voting to affirm homosexuality, but conservatives were assured their viewpoint would be allowed in the ELCA. In the ELCA's national magazine, the traditional, Biblical viewpoint is never allowed.

Sincerely in Christ,

Pastor Tom Brock

(See publication here)

5 Comments

Didaskalos

8/2/2021 08:00:23 am

Imagine that. The "we have no king but Caesar" ELCA is dutifully keeping pace with the moral descent of the world it serves and obeys.

Satan is an implacable, iron-fisted taskmaster to his servants:

** 'Progressive Christian Offers New, More Open, Less Judgmental Christianity — No, Wait, It’s Just Satan Again'
-- https://babylonbee.com/news/progressive-christian-offers-new-more-open-less-judgmental-christianity--no-wait-its-just-satan-again

** -- https://stream.org/loving-gay-people-while-rejecting-gay-activism-reflections-on-the-meaning-of-stonewall/
. . . Deviating From the God-Ordained Norm Leads Society Into Cultural Descent

"In a word, just look at the trajectory, starting with G (gay), then GL (gay, lesbian), then GLB (gay, lesbian, bisexual), and now LGBTQIPA+.

Or consider “the primary categories of people who believe they have multiple gender identities: ambigender; bigender; blurgender; collgender; conflictgender; cosmicgender; crystagender; deliciagender; duragender; demiflux; domgender; fissgender; gemelgender; gendercluster; genderfluid; gendersea; genderfuzz; genderfractal; genderspiral; genderswirl; gendervex; gyaragender; libragender; ogligender; pangender; polygender; and trigender.” And why not? (For further details, see here.)

This is the inevitable trajectory once you deviate from the God-ordained norm.

One day it was, “Just allow us to be who we are in public.” The next day it was, “You need to give our relationships legal recognition.” Then, “You need to celebrate our relationships.” Now, it’s, “You will suffer serious consequences if you do not affirm and celebrate every aspect of LGBTQ+ pride.”

One day it was, “You need to understand the bullying we endured as kids.” The next day, it’s drag queens shaking their hips for toddlers and straight kids being told to keep their views to themselves in middle school.

One day it was, “We will not be silenced.” The next day it was, “All opposition to our agenda must be silenced.”

One day it was, “Don’t shame a boy who is not a macho jock.” The next day it was, “A 15-year-old boy will be sharing the bathroom and locker room with your daughter and competing against her in sports.”

And on and on it goes."

Steve R.

8/2/2021 03:02:59 pm

It's Neuhaus' Law: When orthodoxy is made optional, eventually orthodoxy will be proscribed.

Didaskalos link

8/2/2021 04:45:55 pm

Proscribed, to be sure. The sexual revolutionaries outside of and inside the fake churches take no prisoners.

'The Great Tolerance Ruse'
-- https://stream.org/great-tolerance-ruse/
". . .This is the intolerant regime that runs around screaming about tolerance, acceptance, love, and equality. This is the totalitarian madness that says the price for refusing them is your livelihood, your business, your home, your reputation, and whatever else you have. You will be punished and made to submit to “reprogramming” until you heel. If you still refuse, you will be crushed.

This is the regime that demands to have control of your children. The young ones will be formed to accept the madness as right and good. They will learn to reject and even permanently harm their physical bodies and believe only in feelings. They will be shamed out of their right reason until they submit. Parents, shut up and fall in line.

In *Render Unto Caesar*, Archbishop Charles Chaput writes:

"Evil talks about tolerance when it’s weak. When it’s strong, real tolerance gets kicked out the door. This in turn explains a lot about our current cultural climate. To put it simply — evil cannot bear the counter-witness of truth. It cannot co-exist peacefully with goodness, because evil insists on being seen as right and worshiped as being right. Therefore, the good must be made to seem hateful and wrong."

I think America has been persuaded that tolerance is the supreme virtue, but it is not so. Charity, prudence, justice, mercy, honesty, chastity — these are true virtues. Fidelity to God’s laws about marriage and sexual conduct is not intolerance. It’s the only choice befitting believers."

Charley Eichler

8/3/2021 07:09:59 pm

Amen!

A Reader

8/3/2021 03:55:17 pm

It might be time to consider a name change for
"Living Lutheran". Consider called it "Living LGBTQ+ ELCA Lutheran"

When you have 7 "Highly Recommended Books" and they all have the same point of view, is there any doubt that any toleration is long gone & the ELCA leadership marches in lock step with this agenda!

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