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Old 08-11-2007, 10:08 PM   #10 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by forester814 View Post
Social progress continues!

At this point, I have lost count of the religious institutions that come out (pardon the pun) in support of gays.

But this, I believe, is the biggest and most mainstream.

That's the end of the gay detractors saying, "All major religions reject homosexuality." (At least, for the honest ones.)

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Lutherans to allow pastors in gay relationships - Yahoo! News

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Homosexual Lutheran clergy who are in sexual relationships will be able to serve as pastors, the largest U.S. Lutheran body said on Saturday.

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) passed a resolution at its annual assembly urging bishops to refrain from disciplining pastors who are in "faithful committed same-gender relationships."

The resolution passed by a vote of 538-431.

"The Church ... has just said 'Do not do punishments'," said Phil Soucy, spokesman for Lutherans Concerned, a gay-lesbian rights group within the church. "That is huge."

The ELCA, which has 4.8 million members, had previously allowed gays to serve as pastors so long as they abstained from sexual relations.
The conference also instructed a committee that is developing a social statement on sexuality to further investigate the issue. The committee is scheduled to release its report in 2009.

Since the ELCA was founded in 1988, the group has ordered three pastors in gay relationships to be removed from their ministries. The most recent case was decided in July when the ELCA's committee on appeals voted to remove an openly gay pastor from St. John's Lutheran Church in Atlanta.

The gay clergy issue has become a flashpoint in other faiths, including the Anglican Church.
This is feeding right into my latest "Fxashun". If the biblical story of Sodom and Gomorrah is true, then with the religions starting to ignore their own biblical teachings and turn 180 degrees backward, it's really starting to look like the "End of Days". Not many things in religions are as forbidden as homosexual acts.

December 21, 2012. Remember that date. We are running out of oil. We are messing up the climate. We are becoming more populous than the planet can handle. The planet has already reset itself several times. It seems that we are right on the edge of the next reset or at least a very large change. The Mayan calender ends on that date. I wonder if they knew something that no one else knew.

Exodus 2006 - The Mayan Calendar and the Sun
Pole Shift & Pole Reversal in 2012
2012 |The Mayan calendar and global warming

I've seen a lot of doomsday theories. This one seems to make more sense than the rest of them. It isn't based on anything man-made like computers or a wild guess, but on a science that seems to be well beyond the people that formulated it. And with homosexuality, a sin that is pretty much universal among all religions starting to split many of these same religions at their seams, it seems we are headed for a change that has been foretold by more than one of these same religious texts.

We'll see.
Eternal Path - December 21 2012
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