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Homosexuality

LCMS President Kieschnick responds to ELCA decision affirming homosexual clergy

August 27, 2009

The two largest Lutheran church bodies in the United States are the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) with 4.8 million members and The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS) with 2.4 million members. On Friday, Aug. 21, the Churchwide Assembly of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America voted to open the ministry of the ELCA to gay [...]

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Californication

March 9, 2009

Parishioner Mollie Ziegler Hemingway wrote an article for Christianity Today on the aftermath of California’s Proposition 8. It was recently published on the CT website. Here’s a sample: Chai Feldblum, a Georgetown University law professor and gay activist who drafts federal legislation related to sexual orientation, has publicly said that when religious liberty conflicts with [...]

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Experience Trumps Scripture

January 4, 2008

Noted New Testament scholar Luke Timothy Johnson, in discussing how “God discloses Godself” through human experiences such as homosexual love, admits what this does to Christian theology: “I think it important to state clearly that we do, in fact, reject the straightforward commands of Scripture, and appeal instead to another authority when we declare that [...]

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