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Those were all big bites out of the heretical apple, but compared to what went down in a Lutheran church in Minnesota, they were just nibbles.
While many across Christendom recited the Apostles’ or Nicene Creed a couple of Sundays ago, at Edina Community Lutheran Church, the community proclaimed “the Sparkle Creed.”
The rugged band of ALPB Online Ovatines studiously avoid doctrinal issues. Corrupt clergy capons come in all sizes, all synods. |
The ELCA Is Dying
The denomination boasted the country’s first trans bishop, who, shortly after installation last year, resigned under a cloud of alleged racism. Its clergy have been known to wear Planned Parenthood insignias on their vestments. One pastor’s ordination service was attended by the High Priests of Pride, the infamous Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, and the Scripture readers included a “pagan wiccan priest who loves Jesus,” an agnostic, and a gay pastor, according to Protestia, a news site devoted to “Cataloging Theological Mischief-Makers Since 2012.”
Another ELCA pastor leaves behind her a trail of stunning social media posts in which she calls Jesus “Queer, anti-establishment, pro-heaux, [who] rejected heteronormative relationship models.” Yet another pastor says, “God is trans,” according to a different ELCA heresy-hunting website, Exposing the ELCA.