Krauth - Not Ashamed of the Chief Article

 No, they are Jesuiterans, the UOJ/CG faction that lusts for union with ELCA and Rome.

I long to be like ELCA,
because they have the loot;
I long to be like ELCA,
they bear such lively fruit;
I long to be with ELCA,
amid the Thrivent thugs,
to sing the pothead praises,
to take the ELCA's drugs.
Sing to Aurelia

She claims a historical right to exist. Her history proves her divine origin and necessity; and as our Church has been needed in the past, so is she needed in the present. She is needed not only for her motherhood to her own children, but for the great wants of Christendom and of the world. She is needed as a witness to that doctrine which is conceded in terms by the whole Protestant world, but which is invaded primarily or by necessary inference by every system which is at war with ours — the doctrine of Justification by Faith. Inadequate views of the person and work of Christ; false views of election and reprobation; of the means of grace, the Word and Sacraments; the mode and subjects of Baptism; the nature of the validity and efficacy of the ministry, — all are in conflict, covertly it may be, but really, with the true doctrine of Justification by Faith. Romanism and Ritualism directly assail it; Rationalism destroys it; Fanaticism, sometimes with an affectation of zealotry for it, confounds justification by faith with justification by sensation, and leads the penitent to rest, not on the old, eternal promise, but on a new personal revelation. No Church holds the doctrine of Justification by Faith in that consistent integrity and harmonious relation within itself and with all other doctrines, in which it is held and confessed in the Lutheran Church.
From Charles Krauth. “The Relations Of The Lutheran Church To The Denominations Around Us.” paper given at the First Free Lutheran Diet, 1877. Lutheran Library Publishing Ministry, Alec Satin.

 "I will sell you the Truth about Luther, which will tear down the Reformer and prepare you for the final steps into ELCA and union with Rome. You will be incensed."