WLC speaker -
Roman Catholic Archbishop Weakland used
church money to hush up his boyfriend.
Is anything too low for WLC?
By Rachel Zoll
Associated Press Saturday, August 13, 2005
ORLANDO, Aug. 12 -- A national meeting of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America rejected a proposal Friday that would have allowed gays in committed relationships to serve as clergy under certain conditions.
The measure would have affirmed the church ban on ordaining sexually active gay men and lesbians, but it would have allowed bishops and church districts, or synods, to seek an exception for a particular candidate -- if that person was in a long-term relationship and met other restrictions.
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GJ - Any vote can be overturned, as this article (just posted by dissenters) proves.
In time, any liberal--like ELCA Bishop Kenneth Sauer--can be turned into a grouchy, old, legalistic fuddy-duddy, because apostates accelerate the decline. The older liberals, who enabled the disaster, are left behind. They object and the new leaders laugh at them.
Thus WELS trained many pastors to be Pentecostals and Babtists, but booted them when their students took Mequon doctrinal training to its logical conclusion. The synod Church Growth stars, the shining examples, became official Enthusiasts instead of covert Enthusiasts. Some just kept sliding and became obnoxious atheists.
