Watch the Little Sect on the Prairie, WELS, and Missouri Say "Naughty, Naughty" at ELCA

Breaking news: The Iowa courts have decided that the gay marriage ban in that state is unconstitutional. Has anyone been on a farm there?

The ageless beauty of feminist Gloria Steinem speaks volumes about her cause, which is welded to gay advocacy.

Enjoy the Meet the Vicar program in your synod.

Women priests in The Episcopal Church began with illegal ordinations endorsed by the silence of spineless male bishops.
ELCA is now in full communion with The Episcopal Church, so the conservative synods are too.

The male bishops finally grew a pair, but they turned out to be the new Archbishop and her pal, another bishop.

I knew it was coming.

The three synods (LCMS, WELS, ELS) working for decades, claw-in-hoof with ELCA, have denounced their sister synod for coming out of the closet about homosexual ordination, homosexuals and lesbian partners living in sin in the parsonage.

Roughly 20 years ago, Ed Trexler, the editor of ELCA's The Lutheran magazine, wrote that they had been ordaining homosexuals for decades. His basic thesis was: "What's the big deal now?" The new study and conclusions will be voted on at the 2009 convention. If passed, ELCA will no longer have any restrictions on homosexual partner ministers and lesbian partner ministers. In years past, they could--improbably--think about it but not act on it. Under the new rule, homosexual clergy partnerships will be embraced and sodomy promoted as never before.

It might be wise to impose an old Mafia rule on the ELS, WELS, and LCMS: If you work with the Mob, listen to the Mob, obey the Mob, and take their bribes, you cannot denounce the Mob and live.

We all know that Jerry Kieschnick is never going to break with ELCA. He would rather deliver Missouri to ELCA and be the next Archbishop. How can he distinguish himself from ELCA?

Missouri, WELS, and the ELS have been working on joint religious programs, through Thrivent, for decades. The congregations are united through joint-Thrivent programs on a local level. The bigger side of Thrivent (AAL) has used conservative money to promote itself in ELCA for decades.

AAL sponsored a gay advocacy program at Trinity Seminary, where Lenski once taught, prompting WELS Pastor Richard Starr to write his unforgettable and very knowledgeable Speaking the Unspeakable.

So, no more finger-wagging at ELCA if the synod staffs want to work with ELCA, accept the ELCA agenda, and take money from Thrivent for subordinating the Scriptures to the fad du jour.