Monday, August 13, 2007

Predicted and Documented 20 Years Ago in "Out of the Depths of ELCA"


Resolution passed at the ELCA convention in Chicago, August 11th, 2007:


"Resolved, that in an effort to continue as a church in moral deliberation without further strife and pain to its members the Churchwide Assembly prays, urges, and encourages synods, synodical bishops, and the presiding bishop to refrain from or demonstrate restraint in disciplining those congregations and persons who call into the rostered ministry otherwise-qualified candidates who are in a mutual, chaste, and faithful committed same-gender relationship, and be it further

"Resolved, that the Churchwide Assembly prays, urges, and encourages synods, synodical bishops, and the presiding bishop to refrain from or demonstrate restraint in disciplining those rostered leaders in a mutual, chaste, and faithful committed same-gender relationship who have been called and rostered in this church."

When other pundits like Paul McCain were arranging joint religious efforts with ELCA,
Ur-Ichabod published a chapter about homosexual activism in Out of the Depths of ELCA.

Bohlmann published an article on confessional ecumenism. Werning supported it wholeheartedly.

Snowball is now looking through the window at the latest ELCA-WELS-LCMS meeting. Poor Snowball, he cannot tell one synod from another. See Orwell's Animal Farm, an allegory about Stalinism and Stalinistic synods.