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Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Installs Its First Openly Transgender Bishop
The Daily Mail (UK) ^ | 9/11/21 | AP

Posted on 09/15/2021 7:18:40 PM PDT by marshmallow

* The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America installed the Rev. Megan Rohrer to lead one of the church's 65 synods Saturday

* Rohrer will oversee nearly 200 congregations in Northern California and southern Nevada

* Evangelical Lutherans are one of the largest Christian denominations in the US, with 3.3million members

* Rohrer was one of seven LGBTQ pastors accepted by the church in 2010 when it allowed ordination of pastors in same-sex relationships

* Rohrer was elected to serve a six-year term in the role of bishop

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America installed its first openly transgender bishop in a service held in San Francisco's Grace Cathedral on Saturday.

The Rev. Megan Rohrer will lead one of the church's 65 synods, overseeing nearly 200 congregations in Northern California and northern Nevada.

'My call is ... to be up to the same messy, loving things I was up to before,' Rohrer told worshippers. 'But mostly, if you'll let me, and I think you will, my hope is to love you and beyond that, to love what you love.'

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Mainline Protestant; Ministry/Outreach; Moral Issues; Religion & Culture
KEYWORDS: abomination; bible; blasphemy; elca; homosexual; laodicean; lutheran; queer; revelation; satan; search; spew; spue; transgender; weird

1 posted on 09/15/2021 7:18:40 PM PDT by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

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2 posted on 09/15/2021 7:21:15 PM PDT by D Rider ( )
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To: All
How very ev(sat)angelical of them
3 posted on 09/15/2021 7:27:13 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: LegendHasIt

Not only does it not understand basic biology, it has rather tenuous grasp on English,

Words fail me. I weep for the Lutheran Church, but an happy to have been raised in the LCMS, and continue in the conservative LCMC (Lutheran Church in Mission for Christ) which eschews such obvious blasphemy.


4 posted on 09/15/2021 7:30:22 PM PDT by gas_dr (Conditions of Socratic debate: Intelligence, Candor, and Good Will. )
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To: marshmallow

And Jesus wept.


5 posted on 09/15/2021 7:30:33 PM PDT by Huskrrrr (Alinsky, you magnificent Bastard, I read your book!)
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To: marshmallow

I’m sure whatever she plans on doing, it will be “messy.”


6 posted on 09/15/2021 7:33:28 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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To: D Rider

We are experiencing a full court press. Everywhere we look is messed up. I know it is on purpose. It has been coming a long time. The time is now for the Great Reset/NWO. I was hoping my Grandson would live in a normal world. I’m sad for him and for all of us.


7 posted on 09/15/2021 7:34:56 PM PDT by PeachyKeen
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To: hinckley buzzard

She is a he.


8 posted on 09/15/2021 7:50:29 PM PDT by caseinpoint (Don't get thickly involved in thin things.)
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To: marshmallow

Lutheran, not Catholic. At least not yet.


9 posted on 09/15/2021 7:52:18 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: marshmallow

A lukewarm church I will spew from my mouth. God saw this and puked


10 posted on 09/15/2021 7:58:44 PM PDT by up hermit
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To: marshmallow

Well, isn’t that special!


11 posted on 09/15/2021 8:03:29 PM PDT by jocon307 (Dem party delenda est!)
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To: marshmallow

Just when you think things have gotten as crazy as they could be, things get worse.


12 posted on 09/15/2021 8:27:38 PM PDT by Wilhelm Tell (True or False? This is not a tag line.)
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To: lee martell

Only a matter of time before Pope Marx ordains a lgbtqwtf priest.


13 posted on 09/15/2021 8:37:34 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: marshmallow
I was catechized and confirmed in the Ohio Synod of the Lutheran church a very long time ago. Not going to deny that I abandoned the church at eighteen when I left home for good...But I still read my KJV Bible...And wouldn't go near an ELCA church if I ever decide to recommit...
14 posted on 09/15/2021 8:45:48 PM PDT by PerConPat (A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground - Mencken)
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To: Organic Panic

Such a
Priest will be dressed like Lady Gaga at one of her concerts. Everything exaggerated, fluroescent and flamboyant.
The focus will be on this ‘performer’ vs on The Lord.


15 posted on 09/15/2021 8:50:23 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: marshmallow

Old Martin Luther must be turning in his grave.

For all his theological flaws, at least he still believed in robust
heterosexual marriage.


16 posted on 09/15/2021 9:27:01 PM PDT by miserare ( Respect for life--life of all kinds-- is the first principle of civilization.~~A. Schweitzer.)
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To: gas_dr

The ELCA is frankly, nuts

It is getting worse instead of better.

I have concerns about the LCMC. To my MoLu eyes, it is where the ELCA was 30 years ago, and trying to catch up.


17 posted on 09/16/2021 7:15:28 AM PDT by redgolum (If this is civilization, I will be the barbarian. )
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