Dean Wenthe Switches Positions

I was not surprised to find Dean Wenthe, the president of Concordia Seminary, Ft. Wayne, distancing himself from the results of the ELCA Chicago convention.

http://www.ctsfw.edu/cts/response/elca.php

The scramble to condemn ELCA for the Big Three's (ELCA-WELS-LCMS) joint agenda is sadly predictable. The four-letter synods march along together, ELCA in the lead, while the other two cluck their tongues about how evil and liberal ELCA is. They are just as polite to each other as they are rude to the conservatives in their own synods. See the Ichabod comments for voluminous confirmation of this style.

Some years ago, Dean Wenthe and other signed a study about homosexuality, posted on the LCMS website. The great thing about studies is that everyone can deny knowledge or responsibility. Nevertheless, it had some official status, linked on the official site. Al Barry may still have been the Synodical President.

This study was everything the activists in ELCA desired. Homosexuals were more talented than heterosexuals. They were more sensitive and had much better people skills. No one dare talk to them about the Law, because all they ever heard was the Law. I told some LCMS clergy about it, but they were in shock and denial, as usual.

Later, this older study was no longer linked on the website.