I used to have a web page. The owner of the site decided to close down without telling anyone. So my page is now longer available. I had been a web master for two other people and those pages are also no longer available for viewing. Although one of them, she didn't want hers up so that is okay. The second one, we had a falling out and I told him to find someone who could maintain the page and I'd send via CD or DVD all the information (before the site closed) so it would still be visible. I never heard from him.
I decided I'd place my opinions, which this site became up here since this is basically what I do here away. Most of these things are years old.
In August 2009, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America met in Minneapolis for its Assembly. I won't go into a lot of detail, but the Assembly passed a Social Statement, which then allowed for Mission Policies to be voted upon. Click here for the 2009 ELCA Churchwide Assembly Voting Results. Note because it is now 2014, this page may no longer be available.
These policies now allow bi-sexuals (who if they decise to sleep with a member of their own sex, they are preforming a homosexual act, yet a bi-sexual will not consider themself a homosexual), transgender and practicing homosexuals... oh yes they have to be in public accountable life-long committed monogamous relationship, to become rostered leaders and clergy in the ELCA. It's also said if a congregation doesn't want a homosexual clergy, they don't have to call one, but how long will that remain in effect?
Many people and churches are upset and outraged with what happened in Minneapolis. As you can tell by this web page, I am one of them. Many people don't know what has occurred and there are those who don't care. They say, "it'll never happen here so why bother?" All I can say to them is, "Your church leadership has said to the world that it is allowing a sinful activity to occur in your church." How can you not care?
If you don't believe that homosexual activity is sinful in nature, then how about this: The ELCA leadership is allowing two people of the same sex to live together and have sex who aren't married. YET they can a pastor or a rostered leader in your church. But a man and a woman who live together, have sex and are not married, with one or both who want to be a pastor or a roster leader are told they cannot.
The ELCA says they hold their pastors to higher standards than the average person. Yet they are allowing two sinful activities to occur. First the act of homosexuality, and second two unmarried people living together who are having sex. Yes, anyone who is not married who has sexual relations is participating in a sinful activity. But wait, society no longer thinks that is bad. So the church must evolve and agree with society and forget what the Bible had taught us for centuries.
Many of us who are against this have asked and I have yet to see a reply. Where in the Bible does it say homosexual activity is okay? Where does it say that God blesses same sex couplings? In both the Old and New Testaments, it says one man and one woman. Not two men, or two women, but a man and a woman. If you say you have the urge for someone of the same gender, think about this if your relationship was sanctioned by God, then you could be fruitful and multiply by yourself without the help of man & science. So same gender relations are not normal, AND a sin against God.
Another thing that really upsets me is when those who are homosexual and those who believe that homosexual activity is correct, say that those of us KNOW this activity is a sin against God, tell us that we hate the person. This is untrue. Most people I associate with who Know homosexual activity is wrong, do not hate the person, we hate the activity. Like with everything, there will be those who feel differently. Yet those I know want to have homosexuals attend and belong to a church. Everyone of us are a sinner and we need to attend a religious service so we can hear the Word of God, seek forgiveness and redemption.
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