We are all sinners. We have Ministers that were alcoholics, drug users, thieves. Nothing wrong with them becoming Ministers when they have accepted Jesus Christ,confessed their sins.
That does not mean they can continue to be drunks, drug addicts or crooks.
So how do homosexuals get to be Ministers and to continue with their sin?
This is totally ridiculous and only makes it extremely difficult in teaching our children against the wages of sin.
These religions /churches that are accepting the sin of homosexuality for whatever reason are weakening Religion in general and doing harm to us all.
Easy. you get some exegetic weasels to reinterpret the scriptures so that they don't really smean that homosexual behavior is a sin. They re-translate the old Greek to make it into something vague and ambiguous and therefore worthy of being disregarded.
Seriously. The ELCA is in the process of redefining homosexual behavior as not sinful after all. Whuddahsupprise
Dude...if this is your understanding of salvation, I would say that you are neither Lutheran or Christian. May God have mercy on your soul!