Lutherans To Allow Homosexual Clergy
The nation's largest Lutheran denomination will consider allowing individual congregations to choose whether to allow homosexuals in committed relationships to serve as clergy, a thinly veiled attempt to placate liberals in the Church at the expense of Biblical teaching. In an attempt to avoid the sort of infighting that has threatened to tear other churches apart, they will likely make matters worse. A task force of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America recommended that course Thursday in a long-awaited report on ministry standards. The panel, however, said the church needs to clarify a number of questions before overhauling its homosexual clergy policy. "At this point, there is no consensus in the church," said the Rev. Peter Strommen of Prior Lake, Minn., chairman of the 15-member task force on sexuality. "The question ends up being, 'How are we going to live together in that absence of consensus?' Apparently for these Lutherans, scriptural authority has now taken a back seat to political correctness.
