The children "voted" to leave with their fathers, who had betrayed their ordination vows.
Can you picture these munchkins staying in faculty housing alone?
WELS and the Little Sect on the Prairie are no different from the Missouri Synod of the 1970s. The same is true of micro-mini sects who divide up the remaining 1% of Lutherans in America.
The current book on Missouri Civil War divides the LCMS between "moderates" and the right-wing extremists who dishonestly plotted to take over the denomination. The story led the religion sections for a year, because Concordia Seminary president John Tietjen was a PR expert who used the media. For example, the students and faculty marched away EXILED for the press and TV, but marched back for lunch the same day.
The alleged moderates were LCMS faculty who rejected the inerrancy and authority of the Scriptures. They were the faction that actively sought merger with the LCA and ALC.
Number 1 Lesson: Missouri lied when they told members that their doctrine was not changing. During that time of deception, Calvinistic rationalism took over completely in the teaching faculties, accompanied by unionism and doctrinal indifference.
Number 2 Lesson: The conservatives accomplished very little, because they constantly lied about their connections with Otten while meeting with him and giving him material to publish. That allowed the apostates to make Otten the issue when the articles they hated most came from their co-workers. I said that about a famous article on Bohlmann, before his defeat. "You didn't write that, Herman." He said, "How could you tell?" I said, "Not your style."
Number 3 Lesson: Doctrinal discussions were subverted by political maneuvers, tricks, and manipulations. Idolizing the synod and various leaders always short-circuits any real solutions.
Number 4 Lesson: The alleged conservatives met secretly to pick out who would win. The winner in each case was a pragmatist who ran as a conservative but ruled to suit the apostates. Preus, Bohlmann, and Barry were mirror images of the people who selected them.
For example, Jack Cascione backed David Buegler for Ohio DP, but in a secretive way, so the swing vote would not go against a known "conservative". I even heard Buegler give a candidacy speech - totally vanilla. Cascione was shocked that Buegler's first act as DP was to march, robed, in an LCA or ALC religious service. But Jack did not want the convention voters to think his pal was really a conservative deep, deep down. That is how it works - deceivers promote deceivers and register shock at the deception. Oh dear!
The only way to address the issues is with doctrine, not beauty contests. Financial audits would help too, but they seem to go nowhere. Those are the two areas the apostates do not want addressed. The money trail will show where their treasure lies - Fuller, Willow Creek, etc.
and stole hordes of books from the Concordia library to start their own Seminex library.
The Seminex faculty happily received these stolen goods.
They also became the official seminary
