Now the Lutherans

Paul McCain has an extensive write-up about what he entitles the impending "Denominational Disaster" within the Lutheran Church over homosexual ministers. The following highlights some of the concerns I expressed in a previous post about the same type of debate in the Episcopal church:

On March 1, seventeen ELCA theologians issued "A Statement of Pastoral and Theological Concerns," calling on the church to reject the recommendations from the task force. "We urge that all three recommendations of the task force be rejected since, if adopted, they would alter fundamentally the ecclesiology of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and that, in turn, would threaten not only the unity and stability of this church but, as a consequence, its ability to proclaim the truth of the gospel."