Should have done that before you got into this mess, Mark. Now's a little late, don't you think?
My in-laws are ELCA. As conservative as they come— until it comes to Biblical authority. They visited my church the day our pastor encouraged yes on Prop 8. On the way home my father-in-law said it was great how different people can read the same Scripture and get a different meaning out of it.
I told him that he was doing just what Luther fought— taking the word of man over the Word of God. He didn’t like that too much.