ELCA says no to gay pastors, blessings.(News)(Evangelical Lutheran Church in America)

From: The Christian Century | Date: September 6, 2005| Author: Dart, John | Copyright information

ON THE FACE of it, the nation's largest Lutheran church didn't budge on issues of homosexuality. Though aware that some same-sex couples receive blessings from pastors and that some openly gay or lesbian pastors are ordained, delegates to the biennial assembly of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, held in Orlando, declined to authorize either practice, even on a provisional basis.

The leadership of the church had proposed a lenient approach on these issues to th...

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