The Evangelil Lutheran Church Ameri, wh approximately 5 ln members, has passed repeated rolutns to wele gay and lbian people sce 1991.
Contents:
- LUTHERANS OFFER WARM WELE TO GAY PASTORS
- LUTHERANS TO ALLOW PASTORS GAY RELATNSHIPS
- ELCA ASSEMBLY OPENS MISTRY TO PARTNERED GAY AND LBIAN LUTHERANS
- LUTHERAN GAY AND LBIAN PASTORS ARE 'REAL PEOPLE'
- GAY LUTHERAN PASTORS TO JO CHURCH ROSTER
- OPENLY GAY PASTOR CHOSEN AS LEAR OF LARGE LUTHERAN CHURCH MN.
- LUTHERANS TO ALLOW PASTORS GAY RELATNSHIPS
- LUTHERANS SPL OVER GAY PASTORS, BIBLE BELIEFS
LUTHERANS OFFER WARM WELE TO GAY PASTORS
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3 ln members, Pastor Rohrer had been barred om the church bee of s “polici agast gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr and queer dividuals, ” acrdg to Pastor Rohrer’s bgraphy on the Grace Evangelil Lutheran Church Megan Rohrer Pastor Rohrer was ordaed 2006 through the Extraordary Candidacy Project, now known as Extraordary Lutheran Mistri, which origated the early 1990s ristance to an Evangelil Lutheran Church policy that required s gay clergy to be celibate.
LUTHERANS TO ALLOW PASTORS GAY RELATNSHIPS
The Evangelil Lutheran Church Ameri is now the largt Prottant church to perm noncelibate gay misters to serve s clergy. * gay lutheran pastors *
”In July 2010, Pastor Rohrer was one of seven openly gay pastors who had prevly been barred om mistry to be regnized as clergy members by the Evangelil Lutheran Church a news nference after the pastors were regnized, Pastor Rohrer relled facg challeng while growg up South Dakota and endurg discrimatn, such as havg holy water thrown at them the name of exorcisg them. 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.
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.
ELCA ASSEMBLY OPENS MISTRY TO PARTNERED GAY AND LBIAN LUTHERANS
Seven pastors who work the San Francis Bay area and were barred om servg Ameri's largt Lutheran group bee of a policy that required gay clergy to be celibate are beg weled to the nomatn. * gay lutheran pastors *
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.
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.
Three more gay pastors will be weled at ceremoni September and October, two the St. ”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.
LUTHERAN GAY AND LBIAN PASTORS ARE 'REAL PEOPLE'
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”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.
GAY LUTHERAN PASTORS TO JO CHURCH ROSTER
”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. She has two gay brothers, a lbian sister and a transgenr son. 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.
The most recent se was cid July when the ELCA’s mtee on appeals voted to remove an openly gay pastor om St. John’s Lutheran Church gay clergy issue has bee a flashpot other fahs, cludg the Anglin. church to gay and lbian pastors and other profsnal workers livg.
OPENLY GAY PASTOR CHOSEN AS LEAR OF LARGE LUTHERAN CHURCH MN.
allowed gays and lbians to the ordaed mistry only if they.
said, "Nowhere do say scripture that homosexualy and same sex. But others said a greater acceptance of people who are gay and. the gifts of gay and lbian pastors.
Erie has had gay pastors, whether or not their sexual orientatn was openly acknowledged.
LUTHERANS TO ALLOW PASTORS GAY RELATNSHIPS
Jay Mchell leads worship this Sunday at Luther Memorial Church, he won't be the as far as Mchell knows, he is the first openly gay Lutheran pastor to have been openly gay at the time he was lled by an Erie ngregatn to lead . 3 ln members more than 8, 900 worshipg muni across 50 stat and the Caribbean regn, acrdg to the nomatn's ELCA's Churchwi Assembly voted 2009 to open mistry to gay and lbian pastors livg mted is the procs the ELCA, Mchell went through several rounds of terviews and then led worship at Luther Memorial on Jan. "When I realized that Luther Memorial was open for llg a new pastor, I was very exced to serve not jt at (a) ngregatn I know, but a muny I love very arly, " Jay Mchell spoke wh the Erie Tim-News about beg a gay pastor, a Lutheran and a Christian, and his return to Erie.
Qutn: When did you know you where gay?
LUTHERANS SPL OVER GAY PASTORS, BIBLE BELIEFS
I sort of always knew I was gay.