More Churches Leave ELCA Due to Gays

Two dozen Lutheran congregations in Minnesota and Iowa have vowed to leave the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America because of the denomination's decision to allow people in committed same-sex relationships to serve as clergy.
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Gay Marriage Splitting the Lutheran Church?

Well, I suppose if you’re bound and determined that you have no way of overcoming your bias, hate, intolerance and bigotry against the LGBT community it is.
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Local Lutheran Church Reacts to Split Over Gay and Lesbian Clergy in Relationships

KIMA CBS 29 Local Lutheran Church Reacts to Split Over Gay and Lesbian Clergy in RelationshipsKSAXAlexandria, Minn-In August the Evangelical Lutheran Church of American (ELCA) voted to allow gays and lesbians in committed relationships serve as clergy.
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New Lutheran body to form after gay pastor vote

KIMA CBS 29 New Lutheran body to form after gay pastor voteKTTCPaull Spring is chairman of the group Lutheran CORE, which opposes the acceptance of sexually active gay and lesbian pastors.
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Lesbian bishop consecrated in Sweden

IceNews Lesbian bishop consecrated in SwedenBay WindowsStockholm, Sweden - The Church of Sweden consecrated the world's first openly lesbian bishop in a mainstream denomination Nov.
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First LGBT Presbyterian Minister Ordained in San Francisco

From the San Francisco Chronicle:The San Francisco Presbytery agreed late Tuesday to ordain the first openly homosexual minister in the denomination.
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Gaston congregation splits with national Lutheran church

BESSEMER CITY — A local congregation has split with the national Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (ELCA) over the denomination’s stance on LGBT inclusion and clergy, The Gaston Gazette reported on Nov.
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Hughs: Group meetings prelude to decision by Lutherans (Knoxville News Sentinel)

At its annual convention in Minneapolis in August, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America became the third major denomination to “allow” gay and lesbian Christians to be approved (by their earthly authorities) for ministry.
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Pope Ratzinger: Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Homophobes

by David Link

Andrew thinks the Pope's merger talks with anti-gay Anglicans are "almost baldly political.
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Berks Lutherans debate denomination's decision on gay clergy

Indiana's NewsCenter Berks Lutherans debate denomination's decision on gay clergyReading EagleAnother man wondered what the church will allow next - gay marriage? "I'm not against homosexuals," he said.
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Church May Split over Gay, Lesbian Clergy

Indiana's NewsCenter Church May Split over Gay, Lesbian ClergyWSETRoanoke Co., VA - A Roanoke church has taken its first step toward breaking from its denomination, over whether gays and lesbians should be allowed in the .
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Decision on Gay Clergy Threatens to Split Lutherans

St. Martin's Evangelical Lutheran Church of Annapolis is a house of worship on the brink. It recently voted to explore leaving the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America because of the denomination's decision last month to allow gay people in committed relationships to serve as clergy.
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Lutheran Church Grapples With Change

Lutheran Church Grapples With ChangeWashington PostIt recently voted to explore leaving the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America because of the denomination's decision last month to allow gay people in .
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Reconciling Ministries and the United Methodist Church

I spent my long Labor Day weekend at YMCA of the Rockies, next to Rocky Mountain National Park attending the Reconciling Ministries Network (RMN) Convocation.
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A Lutheran Minister Takes a Hard-Line Approach Toward LGBT Equality

Lutheran Pastor Lura Groen is an out lesbian who is happy at the action taken by the ELCA last month which opened the doors for LGBT pastors in committed relationships to serve in the denomination.
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Joint Press Release of Unitarian Universalist Association and No On 1 Campaign

Just got the following presser:

Unitarian Universalist Association Stands on the Side of Love in Maine, Opposes Question 1

Portland, Maine (Friday, September 11, 2009) ---NO on 1/Protect Maine Equality and the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) today jointly released the following statement from UUA President Rev.
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Nuns Defect Over Gay Acceptance

Ten members of an order of nuns affiliated with the Episcopal Church have left that denomination over its acceptance of gays and joined the Roman Catholic Church.
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Episcopal Nuns Defect Over Church's Gay Views, Become Catholics

Ten Episcopal nuns from All Saints Sisters of the Poor convent outside Baltimore have joined the Catholic Church because of their former denomination's acceptance of gays and lesbians: "The ten members of the All Saints Sisters of the Poor, who.
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Methodists Reject Partnered Lutheran ...

St. Louis Post-Dispatch Methodists Reject Partnered Lutheran Gay ClergyOn Top MagazineOn Wednesday, Methodist officials said the pact does not supersede its own ban on gay clergy.
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Mixed reactions here to ELCA vote on ...

Bay Area Reporter Mixed reactions here to ELCA vote on gay clergyJournal TimesRACINE COUNTY - Members' initial reactions have been mixed to the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's decision to allow those in committed gay .
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