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| Stadler was a pioneer in divorce and remarriage, with many WELS clergy to follow. The late and unlamented Iver Johnson edited the WELS hymnal and crossed out his 50 year marriage to marry his mistress. From such wild oats has come the crop of crimes today. |
bruce-church (https://bruce-church.myopenid.com/) has left a new comment on your post "WELS Watergate? Waterloo? Or Another Tabor, Just,...":
I know that Minnesota requires all clergy to have a background check ever since the RCC priest-boy scandals. The LCMS doesn't send any unmarried vicars to Minnesota as a precaution--to minimize potential conflicts with the state. Otherwise, the state might become even more stringent.This means, especially if every denomination does the same, that many women from Minnesota who would have been pastors' wives won't be from now on. The Hochmuth scandal surely doesn't help church-state matters any.
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GJ - Maybe the women of Minnesota are better off.