Interesting times for the Lutheran church. Leaders are debating whether to allow non-celibate gay men and women to be pastors, according to this NY Times article.
Sounds like some pretty intense discussion is going on around this issue. I'm sure they stand to lose some members if the decision goes in favor of allowing it, but in the long run, for its survival and its humanity, it seems to me they need to take a big step here.
It's taken a long time for society to make the modest gains it has in understanding and accepting or merely tolerating homosexuality. There's no reason to start moving backward, and a decision like this from a church as conservative as the Lutheran church--in which I was raised, by the way--would be a grand statement indeed.
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