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| Keith Gough and his son, Matthew, sled on the hill at the United Lutheran Seminary in Gettysburg Tuesday. Many schools in Adams County cancelled classes for the second straight day. (Darryl Wheeler/Gettysburg Times) |
The very cool and elaborate website created with all ELCA seminaries! That is gone now or in hiding. Each seminary compared faculty, student body, tuition, and other tidbits.
Gettysburg and Philadelphia - always divided - are still in separate locations and operating as if united.
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| She was pushed out of the seminary presidency for being...wait for it...hetero. |
Christian Century:
The day before, Latini released a letter addressing concerns that had been raised in
public conversations at the seminary in late February and early March. Latini
acknowledged a primary issue for many: that in the 1990s she had directed an
organization—formed by members of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)—that
“believed and taught that sexual orientation change was possible to varying degrees
for some, if not many, LGBTQIA+ persons seeking to live in accordance with the
former ‘fidelity and chastity’ standard” then in effect in the PCUSA. She also stated:
“I profoundly regret my work in this organization. . . . I completely reject any and all
other attempts to change one’s own or another person’s sexual orientation.”
Latini became an advocate for full inclusion of people of all sexualities and genders
in the church and the academy in the past 12 years, she wrote.
