Unr a new policy, dividual Lutheran ngregatns will be allowed to hire homosexuals mted monogamo relatnships as clergy. Until now, gays and lbians had to rema celibate to serve as clergy.
Contents:
- LUTHERAN GAY AND LBIAN PASTORS ARE 'REAL PEOPLE'
- GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT
- ELCA ASSEMBLY OPENS MISTRY TO PARTNERED GAY AND LBIAN LUTHERANS
- LUTHERANS OFFER WARM WELE TO GAY PASTORS
- LUTHERANS TO ALLOW PASTORS GAY RELATNSHIPS
- LUTHERANS SPL ON WHETHER TO LEAVE OVER GAY CLERGY
- LUTHERANS TO ALLOW GAYS CLERGY
- LUTHERAN GROUP EAS LIMS ON GAY CLERGY
- A TERRIBLE SERMON: PATRIARCH OF MOSW BLS “METAPHYSIL” WAR AGAST THE “WORLD OF GAY PRIS”
- THE ORTHODOX CHURCH’S ROLE RSIA’S ANTI-GAY LAWS
LUTHERAN GAY AND LBIAN PASTORS ARE 'REAL PEOPLE'
The Evangelil Lutheran Church Ameri, wh approximately 5 ln members, has passed repeated rolutns to wele gay and lbian people sce 1991. * lutheran gay clergy *
In 1991, the Churchwi Assembly passed a rolutn statg that, "Gay and lbian people, as dividuals created by God, are wele to participate fully the life of the ngregatns of the Evangelil Lutheran Church Ameri. Lutheran church Europe tend to be que liberal, workg for the equaly of women, and not believg homosexualy to be a s.
On the qutn of homosexualy, German and Swedish Lutherans allow gay clergy and bls same-sex unns. The Fnish church is divid, but many bishops support the ordatn of gay clergy and the blsg of same-sex unns. In the Uned Stat, the more liberal Evangelil Lutheran Church Ameri (the largt Lutheran nomatn) ordas gay clergy but expects them to rema celibate.
GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT
Lutherans are spl on learship rol for women, and on gay clergy and the blsg of same-sex unns. European church tend to be liberal. In North Ameri, the largt Lutheran nomatns are fairly liberal (though divid), while the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod is nservative. * lutheran gay clergy *
While is currently studyg the issue of homosexualy, has issued statements affirmg the civil rights of gays and lbians and welg them to Lutheran church. MINNEAPOLIS -- Gay and lbian pastors are "real people wag to see if the church will provi help and hope.
The event sought to provi an opportuny to learn about the ELCA policy that "practicg homosexual persons are preclud om the ordaed mistry of this church. Egertson told participants where the ELCA stands on a ntuum of Christian views on homosexualy -- "welg repentant homosexuals who vow to live celibate liv as the evince of repentance and allowg them to serve all learship rol so long as they rema celibate.
Egertson told the dience that bishops are bound by the church's nstutn to move toward disciple when a gay or lbian pastor reveals a relatnship, or they would face disciple themselv. " He advot "providg lurgil blsgs for gay/lbian unns and permtg ngregatns to choose openly gay ordaed and lay misters who are sgle and celibate or upled a permanent, mted, monogamo and blsed venant.
ELCA ASSEMBLY OPENS MISTRY TO PARTNERED GAY AND LBIAN LUTHERANS
The Evangelil Lutheran Church Ameri is now the largt Prottant church to perm noncelibate gay misters to serve s clergy. * lutheran gay clergy *
Let's not let the mistry gifts of gay and lbian people be isolated om the rt of the church and the world.
What our gay and lbian brothers and sisters are askg of the church is somethg Christ has already done: abolish the law wh s mands and ordanc that the two -- heterosexual and homosexual -- n bee one, " said Schemmel.
LUTHERANS OFFER WARM WELE TO GAY PASTORS
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"The church still als wh all s pastors, and severely wh s gay and lbian pastors, on the basis of law, " said Schemmel. Riehl, Universy of North Carola at Greensboro, prented a study she nducted wh 35 gay and lbian Lutheran pastors a program lled "Pulp Fictn. Lutherans Concerned is an ternatnal society of gay, lbian, bisexual and "non-gay" Christians dited to fosterg unrstandg, jtice and renciliatn.
LUTHERANS TO ALLOW PASTORS GAY RELATNSHIPS
Church Lears Lift Ban on Sexually Active Gays and Lbians, but Mt be Commted Relatnship * lutheran gay clergy *
WASHINGTON – A feral appeals urt has led that a Catholic high school Indianapolis was ee to fire a gay guidance unselor bee she performed at least some relig duti, the latt legal setback for LGBTQ+ rights when they nflict wh Fzgerald had worked for 14 years as a guidance unselor at Ronlli High School when school officials disvered she was married to another woman.
AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTLutherans Offer Warm Wele to Gay Berger for The New York TimJuly 25, 2010Wh a layg on of hands, the Evangelil Lutheran Church Ameri on Sunday weled to s fold seven openly gay pastors who had until recently been barred om the church’s ceremony at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church San Francis was the first of several planned sce the nomatn took a watershed vote at s nventn last year to allow noncelibate gay misters mted relatnships to serve the church.
LUTHERANS SPL ON WHETHER TO LEAVE OVER GAY CLERGY
Johnson, one of the seven gay pastors participatg the ceremony, said at a news nference jt before began.
6 ln members, is now the largt Prottant church the Uned Stat to perm noncelibate gay misters to serve the ranks of s clergy — an issue that has ed wrenchg divisns for as well as for many other the church voted last summer to allow noncelibate gay clergy members to serve, 185 ngregatns have taken the two nsecutive vot required to leave the nomatn, said Melissa Ramirez Cooper, a spokwoman for the church, cg a tally that she said was updated monthly.
LUTHERANS TO ALLOW GAYS CLERGY
There are 10, 396 ngregatns Epispal Church and the Uned Church of Christ also allow gay misters.
He noted that while some ngregatns were open to nsir hirg openly gay misters, others were not — and each ngregatn is ee to Evangelil Lutherans signed Sunday’s special “re of receptn” to mark the formal cln of gay misters who were ordaed “extraordary r” that were not regnized by the church but were nducted by a group lled Extraordary Lutheran Mistri. ”She said that all together, there were 46 openly gay misters who had prevly been exclud om the church’s clergy roster and would now be change was ma possible after the Churchwi Assembly, the Evangelil Lutherans’ chief legislative body, voted at s meetg 2009 to allow the ordatn of noncelibate gay pastors who are monogamo relatnships.
In the end, the proposal to perm openly gay clergy members won jt two-thirds of the vot, the mimum required for who opposed are now poised to leave. ”A rrectn was ma onJuly 29, 2010: An article on Monday about a cisn by the Evangelil Lutheran Church Ameri to wele back to s fold seven openly gay pastors who had been barred om the church’s mistry referred rrectly to the ceremony that was ed to mark the ocsn at St. ”How we handle rrectnsA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 13 of the New York edn wh the headle: Lutherans Offer Warm Wele to Gay Pastors, but Divisns Rema Church.
LUTHERAN GROUP EAS LIMS ON GAY CLERGY
CHICAGO (Rters) - Homosexual Lutheran clergy who are sexual relatnships will be able to serve as pastors, the largt U.
Has jt said ‘Do not do punishments’, ” said Phil Soucy, spokman for Lutherans Concerned, a gay-lbian rights group wh the church. 8 ln members, had prevly allowed gays to serve as pastors so long as they abstaed om sexual nference also stcted a mtee that is velopg a social statement on sexualy to further vtigate the issue.
A TERRIBLE SERMON: PATRIARCH OF MOSW BLS “METAPHYSIL” WAR AGAST THE “WORLD OF GAY PRIS”
The mtee is schled to release s report the ELCA was found 1988, the group has orred three pastors gay relatnships to be removed om their mistri.
THE ORTHODOX CHURCH’S ROLE RSIA’S ANTI-GAY LAWS
The most recent se was cid July when the ELCA’s mtee on appeals voted to remove an openly gay pastor om St.