Are you a Lutheran? If so I'm sorry to hear all that. I had hoped that these two would stand firm. If you are, don't give up, keep fighting. There is still time and with God all things are possible.
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My greatest fear is that Protestants will comfort themselves with the thought that the Catholics are really bad. However, I know of two Lutheran church workers who murdered their wives and were supported in various ways by the Wisconsin Synod hierarchy. One man murdered his wife and then moved to a new congregation to serve as pastor! He never went to prison. Another man murdered his wife and then claimed she rolled over and over on a steak knife while sleeping. (Sound sleeper!) The second man was found guilty and went to prison for a few years. However, the WELS college president defended him on the witness stand and a bus-load of idiots traveled from New Ulm to Phoenix to show their support of the murderer. Both men were serial adulterers. The first man was well known as an adulterer before he joined the Wisconsin Synod. The second man married his children's baby-sitter while he was in prison. His wife's father (a pastor in the same synod) died of AIDS. But now people claim it was not AIDS.
My faith is grounded in the Scriptures rather than the supposed virtue of men. These times are precisely described in the Bible. We are living in the Great Apostasy, when the visible church is ruled by ex-believers (anti-Christians). "Though there be those that loathe Her, false sons within the pale..."
I hope that all the clergy predators and their enablers find justice in this world. They surely will in the age to come.