GJ - First this Iowa district of ELCA questioned the August 2009 vote. Next the bishop got the district council to rescind that dissent from ELCA. Afterwards came this Final Solution for anyone who dared to join a straight lobbying group:
Source:
Resolution from the Upper Iowa River Conference Spring Assembly, February 14, 2010
Whereas the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is a constitutionally governed organization served by constitutionally elected leaders at both the synod and church wide levels, and
Whereas the stated purposes of the organization known as Lutheran CORE are to 1) bring forth a proposal for a new Lutheran church body governed by a new constitution for those who choose to leave the ELCA, and 2) to plan for the continuation of Lutheran CORE as a free-standing synod for all Lutherans, and
Whereas it is an inherent conflict of interest for individuals who are members of CORE to fully and wholeheartedly support the ELCA constitution,
Be it Resolved that: 1) all rostered and lay leaders who are members of CORE and are currently serving in elected positions in the NE Iowa Synod be required to resign from those positions, and that 2) all rostered and lay individuals currently holding membership in CORE be disqualified from election to positions of leadership within the NEIA Synod.
Submitted by the Upper Iowa River Conference of the NEIA Synod — ELCA Voted on at conference assembly, February 14, 2010.
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GJ - In 1987, I spoke with a Reformed Church in America pastor who had been Presbyterian. When Presbyterians voted for women's ordination, they said the pastors who disagreed would be left alone. Later, this man privately expressed his doubts to the district executive, who immediately said, "I have to remove you from the ministry."
The Presby minister said, "I will never express my views in public."
The executive said, "That does not matter now. You are off the list."
Do not be shocked. Pope John the Malefactor (ELS) did the same. So did Dan Fleischer of the mini-micro Church of the Lutheran Confession (sic). Ditto, many others of small brain and large waist.
The point is that once a new apostate doctrine or application is adopted, all dissent must be liquidated.
ELCA is marching its straight clergy to the metaphorical gas chambers. Diversity is for dopes.
WELS will do the same with women's ordination. They already have women pastors. Ordination is not the issue because all true followers of Walther's Pietism know that ordination is an adiaphoron. How do we know? Because Walther said so.
The Biblical issue is "women usurping authority" and "women teaching men." WELS, the Little Sect on the Prairie, and Missouri have been violating those clear Biblical principles for decades now. All they need to do now is study the issue and publish a report confirming that they have a new revelation from Holy Spirit. They will ordain women as a matter of Biblical and Confessional principles - just you wait.
A few years later, Perez Hilton will be the anointed Prophet of WELS.
