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Lutheran bishop warns about withholding donations
Associated Press ^
| September 23, 2009
Posted on 09/23/2009 2:12:10 PM PDT by george76
The presiding bishop of the nation's largest Lutheran denomination warned Wednesday that withholding financial support to protest a recent gay clergy vote would be "devastating" to the church.
Bishop Mark Hanson laid out his concerns in a letter to leaders of the 4.7 million-member Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, which is based in Chicago. The ELCA churchwide assembly voted last month to allow gays and lesbians in committed relationships to serve as clergy, dropping a requirement that gay clergy remain celibate.
The Rev. Mark Chavez, director of Lutheran CORE, said the gay clergy vote was the devastating event — "a departure from God's clear word." He called Hanson's letter "an attempt to shift the responsibility of this devastation and crisis within the ELCA away from the people who presided over it and are responsible for it."
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posted on
09/23/2009 2:12:10 PM PDT
by
george76
To: sionnsar; Huber
Corrupt just like the Episcobaalians.
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posted on
09/23/2009 2:13:17 PM PDT
by
rabscuttle385
(So many Communists, so little time.)
To: lightman
To: george76
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posted on
09/23/2009 2:15:02 PM PDT
by
AliVeritas
(Ez 38 Pray.)
To: george76
The Lutherans clergy demanded to make a stand against the Bible. Now they are complaining about devestation. What is that about reaping what you sow? Maybe the homosexuals attending Lutheran services can make up the losses.
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posted on
09/23/2009 2:15:25 PM PDT
by
Obadiah
(Obama: Chains you can believe in!)
To: george76
What’d they expect? I’ve left the ELCA entirely and begun attending a Missouri Synod church. My money will go there from now on, too.
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posted on
09/23/2009 2:15:37 PM PDT
by
jyoders19
To: george76
The Lutheran Church has preached about consequences since its inception.
Are they now attempting to duck the consequences of the wrongheaded decision they made?
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posted on
09/23/2009 2:15:42 PM PDT
by
relictele
To: george76
These Churches need to fold up anyway- donations or not. Each Church makes up its own pliable doctrine as they go along. The curse of the Reformation that sprung these toxic mushrooms.
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posted on
09/23/2009 2:15:42 PM PDT
by
Steelfish
To: AliVeritas; SeekAndFind
By their fruits shall ye know them...
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posted on
09/23/2009 2:16:33 PM PDT
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: george76
I guess they should have thought of that beforehand....
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posted on
09/23/2009 2:17:08 PM PDT
by
babygene
To: Obadiah
. . . warned . . . that withholding financial support to protest a recent gay clergy vote would be "devastating" to the church. I think that's the idea.
If you want to serve Satan rather than God, don't do your fundraising from God's people.
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posted on
09/23/2009 2:17:34 PM PDT
by
Vigilanteman
(Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
To: george76
Gay clergy is what is devastating to the church.
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posted on
09/23/2009 2:18:13 PM PDT
by
Marie2
(The second mouse gets the cheese.)
To: Obadiah; LucyT
The militant gay community is not interested in serving God.
Destroying Christianity is the real agenda.
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posted on
09/23/2009 2:18:52 PM PDT
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: george76
By their fruits shall ye know them...That's a good one...
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posted on
09/23/2009 2:19:44 PM PDT
by
Zhang Fei
(Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always)
To: george76
Too bad you perverts!!!!!
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posted on
09/23/2009 2:19:51 PM PDT
by
shankbear
(Al-Qaeda grew while Monica blew)
To: Steelfish
The curse of the Reformation Maybe if the Catholic church hadn't been selling 'indulgences' and running whorehouses there would have been no need for any Reformation.
Just a thought.
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posted on
09/23/2009 2:19:51 PM PDT
by
Lurker
(The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
To: george76
The presiding bishop of the nation's largest Lutheran denomination warned Wednesday that withholding financial support to protest a recent gay clergy vote would be "devastating" to the church. Oh, something is "devastating" allright ... but it isn't the withholding of financial support.
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posted on
09/23/2009 2:20:22 PM PDT
by
Mr Ramsbotham
(Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
To: george76
...the gay clergy vote was the devastating event ...
Bingo!! Why wouldn’t people withhold their money? Go talk to the idiot Presiding Bishop and her minions over at what used to be the Episcopal church and see how that’s working out for them.
To: george76
Gee,my son-in-law, an ELCA “missionary”, will have to start looking for another cushy job.
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posted on
09/23/2009 2:21:42 PM PDT
by
Palladin
(ACORN is a criminal enterprise.)
To: Zhang Fei
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posted on
09/23/2009 2:21:48 PM PDT
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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