ELCA lost a $40 million lawsuit because of one of their ordinands, a known predator before ELCA displayed its diversity.
ELCA NEWS SERVICE
August 18, 2009
ELCA Assembly Begins Work on "Human Sexuality: Gift and Trust"
09-CWA-06-MRC
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MINNEAPOLIS (ELCA) -- "Human Sexuality: Gift and Trust" -- a proposed social statement on human sexuality -- was formally introduced to the 1,045 voting members of the 2009 Churchwide Assembly of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) Aug. 18.
The Rev. Peter Strommen introduced the statement which, if approved by the assembly, will become the 10th social statement of the ELCA. Strommen chairs the Task Force for the ELCA Studies on Sexuality, which developed the proposed document under the directive of the 2001 ELCA Churchwide Assembly.
The churchwide assembly, the chief legislative authority of the ELCA, is meeting here Aug. 17-23 at the Minneapolis Convention Center. About 2,000 people are participating, including voting members. The theme for the biennial assembly is "God's work. Our hands."
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GJ - The rest of the story is too boring to copy. The ELCA bishop is pretending to be hands-off on the agenda, "trusting the process," but the process is predetermined by how delegates are filtered.
