ELCA Lutherans Oppose Marriage Amendment

To anyone who has been following the ELCA Lutheran church and its slide into relativism and biblical unbelief....this should come as no surprise.

Minneapolis-area Lutherans on Friday went on record against changing the state Constitution to define marriage as between one man and one woman.

Their vote made them one of the largest faith groups yet to formally oppose the amendment that will go before voters Nov. 6, which would ban same-sex marriage in Minnesota. Close to 700 Lutherans, representing congregations in the Minneapolis Area Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, voted on a resolution opposing the amendment at the group's annual assembly at a Prior Lake church.

"What we've heard today is the Lutheran Church is about welcome, and we proved that with the statement we made," said Lauren Morse-Wendt, a mission developer with Edina Community Lutheran Church and one of the resolution's authors. "I believe the people of Minnesota need to know that people of faith stand up for all families. This marriage amendment to define marriage between a man and a woman is a discriminatory amendment which would deliberately deny justice to a portion of the population of Minnesota."

The Minneapolis synod is the nation's largest ELCA synod, with approximately 188,710 baptized members. In 2004, its assembly opposed "any effort to amend the United States federal or Minnesota state Constitution to forbid the creation of legally recognized relationships between persons of the same sex."

The ELCA nationwide also changed its policy in 2009 to allow for openly gay and lesbian pastors in committed relationships.

http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/139536313.html?page=1&c=y

Remember that in 2009?...when the Lutherans voted to ordain practicing gays?  They were at Convention Center in downtown Minneapolis on a sunny clear day.  The vote was being called for and out of the blue one big cloud formed south of town, it got darker and dropped a tornado that went into downtown and bent the cross off the top of Central Lutheran which is right across the street from the Convention Center.  There was not even a call for a cloud in the sky in the morning news, forget about a tornado watch.

The vote went on to pass by one vote.

But I guess that's all just a really big coincidence.