Comments on: THIS WEEK: Lutherans Will Yay Or Nay the Gays http://www.queerty.com/this-week-lutherans-will-yay-or-nay-the-gays-20090818/ Free of an agenda. Except that gay one. Wed, 15 Feb 2012 06:14:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: dgz http://www.queerty.com/this-week-lutherans-will-yay-or-nay-the-gays-20090818/#comment-207524 dgz Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:36:39 +0000 http://www.queerty.com/?p=64386#comment-207524 @<a href="#comment-207313" rel="nofollow">Quinn</a>: agreed. and the other synods don't even allow *women* to be clergy members. @Quinn: agreed. and the other synods don’t even allow *women* to be clergy members.

]]> By: Quinn http://www.queerty.com/this-week-lutherans-will-yay-or-nay-the-gays-20090818/#comment-207313 Quinn Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:40:58 +0000 http://www.queerty.com/?p=64386#comment-207313 Except that, having gone to an ELCA college and having known many in the local ELCA communities, I can say they're one of the most accepting denominations I've ever seen. Other synods - and even individual congregations - can and do vary. But on the whole I've had nothing but positive experiences with the ELCA. The Bible does not say what most people think about homosexuality. The Scripture has been perverted by radical right-wing fundamentalists to fulfill an agenda... but even more upsettingly, many within our community seem to have bought into the propaganda, instead of framing the debate, the text, and the history in our own terms. Except that, having gone to an ELCA college and having known many in the local ELCA communities, I can say they’re one of the most accepting denominations I’ve ever seen. Other synods – and even individual congregations – can and do vary. But on the whole I’ve had nothing but positive experiences with the ELCA.

The Bible does not say what most people think about homosexuality. The Scripture has been perverted by radical right-wing fundamentalists to fulfill an agenda… but even more upsettingly, many within our community seem to have bought into the propaganda, instead of framing the debate, the text, and the history in our own terms.

]]> By: Cinderfellow http://www.queerty.com/this-week-lutherans-will-yay-or-nay-the-gays-20090818/#comment-207297 Cinderfellow Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:32:27 +0000 http://www.queerty.com/?p=64386#comment-207297 @<a href="#comment-207280" rel="nofollow">Chance and ThinkRealHard</a>: Stupidity has no limits, you cannot change the Christian scripture in the same way that you cannot change the plot in Shakespeare´s works with the stroke of a pen...nobody is forcing any of you to become a gay Lutheran or Christian, so get over over it, both of you start to look like Republican, extreme-right wing cracks with so much intolerance... @Chance and ThinkRealHard: Stupidity has no limits, you cannot change the Christian scripture in the same way that you cannot change the plot in Shakespeare´s works with the stroke of a pen…nobody is forcing any of you to become a gay Lutheran or Christian, so get over over it, both of you start to look like Republican, extreme-right wing cracks with so much intolerance…

]]> By: ThinkRealHard http://www.queerty.com/this-week-lutherans-will-yay-or-nay-the-gays-20090818/#comment-207285 ThinkRealHard Tue, 18 Aug 2009 14:43:49 +0000 http://www.queerty.com/?p=64386#comment-207285 The Lutheran's are voting on a "marketing ploy" to keep and attract gay and lesbian contributors. Officially Lutherans will continue to make homosexuals "wrong, sinful and deviant." Why not end THAT Lutherans? Maybe make some REAL progress. The Lutheran’s are voting on a “marketing ploy” to keep and attract gay and lesbian contributors. Officially Lutherans will continue to make homosexuals “wrong, sinful and deviant.”

Why not end THAT Lutherans? Maybe make some REAL progress.

]]> By: Chance http://www.queerty.com/this-week-lutherans-will-yay-or-nay-the-gays-20090818/#comment-207280 Chance Tue, 18 Aug 2009 14:31:04 +0000 http://www.queerty.com/?p=64386#comment-207280 Please remember - "gay's ok" is not the same thing as a revision of scriptural doctrine. The book still says we're sinners and wrong. Welcoming us into the church doesn't change that. Please remember – “gay’s ok” is not the same thing as a revision of scriptural doctrine. The book still says we’re sinners and wrong. Welcoming us into the church doesn’t change that.

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