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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'

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.

GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT

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. 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.

ELCA ASSEMBLY OPENS MISTRY TO PARTNERED GAY AND LBIAN LUTHERANS

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. Let's not let the mistry gifts of gay and lbian people be isolated om the rt of the church and the world.

LUTHERANS OFFER WARM WELE TO GAY PASTORS

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 TO ALLOW PASTORS GAY RELATNSHIPS

"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.

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.

LUTHERANS SPL ON WHETHER TO LEAVE OVER GAY CLERGY

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. 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. There are 10, 396 ngregatns Epispal Church and the Uned Church of Christ also allow gay misters.

LUTHERANS TO ALLOW GAYS CLERGY

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. 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. 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.

LUTHERAN GROUP EAS LIMS ON GAY CLERGY

The most recent se was cid July when the ELCA’s mtee on appeals voted to remove an openly gay pastor om St.

Mark Chavez believ the lears of his church ma a cisn direct ntradictn of the Bible by liftg a ban on sexually active, monogamo gays and lbians as clergy, he's stayg wh the Evangelil Lutheran Church of Ameri. "I'm not leavg, " Chavez said Friday night, promisg an effort to keep the church om movg even further toward what he se as an embrace of behavr nmned by, of Landisville, Pennsylvania, is director of Lutheran CORE, a nservative group wh the ELCA that fought the gay clergy policy. The new policy, dividual ELCA ngregatns will be allowed to hire homosexuals mted monogamo relatnships as clergy.

Until now, gays and lbians had to rema celibate to serve as change to gay clergy policy passed wh the support of 68 percent of about 1, 000 legat at the ELCA's natnal assembly. Conservative ngregatns will not be forced to hire gay clergy, but opponents neverthels warned there uld be spirual nsequenc for a church that strays om Scripture.

A TERRIBLE SERMON: PATRIARCH OF MOSW BLS “METAPHYSIL” WAR AGAST THE “WORLD OF GAY PRIS”

In 2003, the 2 ln-member Epispal Church nsecrated s first openly gay bishop, a move that alienated Amerin Epispalians om s worldwi parent church, the Anglin Communn. "By not only sayg what we are agast, which always seems to be the same — agast gay people. Prev Evangelil Lutheran Church policy allows gay and lbian clergy, lay people to serve only if celibate.

One of the untry's largt Prottant nomatns, the Lutheran church approved four remendatns to s mistry's polici that unrsre a new approach to homosexualy.

6-ln member church allowed gay people to serve as members of profsnal rosters only if they were celibate. Other relig nomatns, cludg Epispalians and Unarians, have ma mov to accept gay clergy, and Evangelil Lutherans would not be the first to accept those openly same-sex relatnships, said David Masci, a senr rearcher at the Pew Fom on Relign and Public Life. 1964 July At s nventn, the Lutheran Church Ameri (LCA) releas the statement “Marriage and Fay, ” s first on the subject, which ntas no mentn of homosexualy.

THE ORTHODOX CHURCH’S ROLE RSIA’S ANTI-GAY LAWS

This statement ntas the Church’s first mentn of homosexualy, which is referred to as a s, but also claims that homosexuals are “often the special and unservg victims of prejudice and discrimatn law, law enforcement, cultural mor, and ngregatnal life. ” The statement nclus wh a fense of “unrstandg and jtice church and muny” of homosexual persons.