Brad Froslee is the new pastor of the Calvary Lutheran Church in Minneapolis on Sunday. Dozens of fellow pastors, as well as his parents, grandmother, and pews filled with congregants attended. But you won’t find Froslee’s ministry listed by the Evangelical Lutheran Church — because he’s gay and in a five-and-a-half year relationship, disavowing the church’s already contested permission of celibate gay pastors.
But to make it work, Froslee and the church and synod leaders are operating on what church council member Brian Aust called “the margins of the ELCA.” It’s an arrangement that could be formalized this August, when leaders of the ELCA – the nation’s largest Lutheran denomination with 4.7 million members – meet for their biannual convention in Minneapolis.
An ELCA task force has recommended a policy that would let congregations decide whether to allow gays and lesbians in committed relationships to serve as their clergy. The resolution has been criticized from both directions, with liberals saying it doesn’t go far enough and conservatives saying it conflicts with Scripture.
[AP]
dgz
well, since this is already tolerated in *every* nation in which the Lutheran Church is the state religion…
atdleft
Oh jeez, the circular reasoning! “Oh, but he’s not married”. So why not allow these queer pastors to get married? “Oh, god doesn’t want that!” So why not let these ministers in committed relationships serve openly? “Oh, but they’re not married!”
Sigh…
Monica Roberts
How does Miss Frosees plan to sachet into her so called Lutheran Church with those huge sideways dick-chafing dentures, and chipmunk cheeks, looking wall-eyed talking about “margins.”
At least he “has” a “Husband” who will listen to all that Lutheran mind-control and not get all pissy because his “3 roomates don’t wipe the commode before trade comes by.”
Trust, until Miss Ausburg Confession walks a mile in my tight and painful pumps, she will not know the sting of her own theses being mashed upside her door!
jed
@atdleft: Indeed. These Catch-22s abound in Protestant Christianity’s attempts to include/exclude gay preachers. Ah but wait – these Catch-22s abound in so terrifyingly many conservative talking points! Nothing new.
PDX
F**k the Lutheran Church!!!
Ironyman
“No. 5 · PDX
F**k the Lutheran Church!!!”
And people actually claim, with a straight face, that atheists are capable of morality.