{"id":245,"date":"2010-09-01T13:10:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-01T13:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2010\/09\/gay-clergy-prompt-lutheran-rift.html"},"modified":"2010-09-01T13:10:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-01T13:10:00","slug":"gay-clergy-prompt-lutheran-rift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2010\/09\/gay-clergy-prompt-lutheran-rift.html","title":{"rendered":"Some Lutherans, Like Episcopalians, Split to Form Gay-Free Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are you someone who opposes openly gay clergy, if not homosexuality in general, and find that your religious group&nbsp;has become too permissive in recent years?<\/p>\n<p>If so, you may be&nbsp;a Lutheran. Or <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2010\/06\/anglican-episcopalian-rift-festers-over-gay-clergy-lgbt-rights.html\">Episcopalian<\/a>. Or <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2010\/07\/presbyterian-assembly-approves-gay-clergy-not-gay-marriage.html\">Presbyterian<\/a>.&nbsp;Perhaps<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/12\/07\/us\/07jews.html\"> a&nbsp;conservative Jew<\/a>? Hmmm.<\/p>\n<p>To focus on the latest example: Some Lutherans, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2010\/05\/elca-starts-reinstating-gay-clergy-thanks-to-new-rules.html\">dismayed at the Evangelical Lutheran Church&nbsp;in America&#8217;s recent decision to accept openly gay clergy<\/a>, are leaving the ELCA to form a&nbsp;new group: the North American Lutheran Church. Some links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/religion\/2010-02-25-lutherans-gay_N.htm?csp=34&amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+Religion-TopStories+(News+-+Religion+-+Top+Stories)\">Lutheran Church Seeing Fallout Overy Gay Clergy Issue<\/a>&nbsp;(AP)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20100827\/ap_on_re_us\/us_religion_today\">Lutherans Split Overy Gay Pastors, Bible Beliefs<\/a> (AP)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.getreligion.org\/?p=41888&amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+getreligion\/DmXm+(GetReligion)\">A no-big-deal church split<\/a> (GetReligion)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What do you think? Share your thoughts in the Comments section below.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">*<a href=\"http:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/mailverify?uri=beliefnet\/beliefbeat\">Click here to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong>subscribe to Belief Beat<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><\/a>and<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/beliefbeat\">click here to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong>follow Belief Beat on Twitter.<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you someone who opposes openly gay clergy, if not homosexuality in general, and find that your religious group&nbsp;has become too permissive in recent years? If so, you may be&nbsp;a Lutheran. Or Episcopalian. Or Presbyterian.&nbsp;Perhaps a&nbsp;conservative Jew? Hmmm. To focus on the latest example: Some Lutherans, dismayed at the Evangelical Lutheran Church&nbsp;in America&#8217;s recent decision&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Some Lutherans, Like Episcopalians, Split to Form Gay-Free Church - Belief Beat<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2010\/09\/gay-clergy-prompt-lutheran-rift.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Some Lutherans, Like Episcopalians, Split to Form Gay-Free Church - Belief Beat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Are you someone who opposes openly gay clergy, if not homosexuality in general, and find that your religious group&nbsp;has become too permissive in recent years? 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