Assembly actions on sexuality
Posted by Robert Fisher on August 11, 2007
The Churchwide Assembly today did not pass resolutions changing church policy regarding the ordination/commissioning of persons in same-sex relationships, but did pass a substitute motion urging bishops not to discipline such clergy/rostered leaders. Here is what the AP is reporting:
Evangelical Lutheran national assembly asks bishops to keep gay clergy in
ministry
By RACHEL ZOLL | The Associated Press
2:51 PM CDT, August 11, 2007
A national assembly of Evangelical Lutherans urged its bishops Saturday to
refrain from defrocking gay and lesbian ministers who violate a celibacy
rule, but rejected measures that would have permitted ordaining gays
churchwide.
Update (8/12) — Jason DeRose’s report on “All Things Considered”
