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The 'boys' in St. Louis know that they will have a tiger by the tail if they come out against oral contraception. They are political enough to know how that will play in many LCMS congregations. Some of our ocngregations are starting to veer a bit towards ELCA-land.

Find a conservative LCMS pastor and discuss this with him. This will not be new territory for him.

BTW, it's good to meet another "Good Lutheran" here on FR.

I have discussed it with a friend of mine who is a pastor before he went to another call. He said he didn't like many of the pills, and that he and his wife use barrier methods. They are looking to have a child now, so I doubt he is using anything today.

The political landscape of the LCMS these days is a bit confusing. You have the conservatives, the "liberals", and the rest of us trying to figure out what type of games are being played. The whole debacle over the New York prayer service is a good case in point.

I think that a bit more discretion should of been applied, and I have a hard time calling the pastor in question wrong when he cleared the meeting with his superiors.