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posted Friday, November 13, 2009 - Volume 37 Issue 46 New Lutheran body to form after gay pastor voteBy PATRICK CONDON Patrick Condon, Associated Press Writer NEW BRIGHTON, Minn. - The split over gay clergy within the country's largest Lutheran denomination has prompted a conservative faction to begin forming a new Lutheran church body separate from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Leaders of Lutheran CORE said Wednesday that a working group would immediately begin drafting a constitution and taking other steps to form the denomination, with hopes to have it off the ground by next August. "There are many people within the ELCA who are very unhappy with what has happened," said the Rev. Paull Spring, chairman of Lutheran CORE and a retired ELCA bishop from State College, Pa. At its annual convention in Minneapolis in August, ELCA delegates voted to lift a ban that had prohibited sexually active gay and lesbian pastors from serving as clergy. The new policy, expected to take effect in April, will allow such individuals to lead ELCA churches as long as they can show that they are in committed, lifelong relationships. Opponents, led by Lutheran CORE, said that decision is in direct contradiction to Scripture. full story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091118/ap_on_re_us/us_lutherans_gays |
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