Believe it or not, the ELCA knows what it's doing!
The logical untenability of the ***A's apparent decision to ordain some practicing homosexuals, but not all, is no accident. I have no doubt that the obvious inconsistency of the plan is part of the idea; when the absurdity and immorality of the policy from either side of the issue is pointed out, the camel's nose will be well and truly under the tent, and the "remedy" of simply ordaining all practicing homosexuals who would otherwise qualify will be urged as the logical solution.
And a few people will grumble- on the way to the post office, to send Higgins Road the checks which fund the apostacy.
The ELCAns' latest stunt is declaring "interim Eucharistic sharing" (kind of living together before getting married; the theologically incoherent practice of temporarily declaring pulpit-and-altar fellowship with a denomination of altogether incompatable confession, as a way of upping the temperature in the frog-pot a few degrees so that nobody will notice when the relationship is made permanent) with another ecclesiastical cesspool, the United Methodist Church.
The UMC had a much-publicized trial in Philadelpia two years ago, after which a pastorette who was living in a lesbian relationship was defrocked.
Well, guess what?
She's been reinstated.
The ***A already is in full pulpit-and-altar fellowship with the United Church of Christ, which not only accepts homosexual behavior among clergy and laity alike, but does not require its ministers to believe in the doctrine of the Trinity.
When, for some reason, it declared itself to be in the same relationship with the Episcopal Church, some wag said that it was like sleeping with a corpse. Well, If ecclesiastical promiscuity had the same consequences as the ordinary kind, the ***A would long since have contracted AIDS.
And a few people will grumble- on the way to the post office, to send Higgins Road the checks which fund the apostacy.
The ELCAns' latest stunt is declaring "interim Eucharistic sharing" (kind of living together before getting married; the theologically incoherent practice of temporarily declaring pulpit-and-altar fellowship with a denomination of altogether incompatable confession, as a way of upping the temperature in the frog-pot a few degrees so that nobody will notice when the relationship is made permanent) with another ecclesiastical cesspool, the United Methodist Church.
The UMC had a much-publicized trial in Philadelpia two years ago, after which a pastorette who was living in a lesbian relationship was defrocked.
Well, guess what?
She's been reinstated.
The ***A already is in full pulpit-and-altar fellowship with the United Church of Christ, which not only accepts homosexual behavior among clergy and laity alike, but does not require its ministers to believe in the doctrine of the Trinity.
When, for some reason, it declared itself to be in the same relationship with the Episcopal Church, some wag said that it was like sleeping with a corpse. Well, If ecclesiastical promiscuity had the same consequences as the ordinary kind, the ***A would long since have contracted AIDS.
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