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Lutheran Church becomes first major US Christian faith to elect a transgender bishop
Daily Mail ^ | 10 May 202 | DAILYMAIL.COM REPORTER

Posted on 05/11/2021 7:49:42 AM PDT by artichokegrower

Rev Megan Rohrer was elected bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's Sierra Pacific synod on Saturday, becoming the first transgender person to serve as bishop in the denomination or in any of the major Christian faiths in the US.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: elca; notlutherans
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To: PGR88

A lot....3.3 million

7th largest denomination in the USA

And largest of the Lutheran sects

Around 60 percent of Lutherans are in this sect

I first encountered them in New Orleans over ten years ago some youth convention that centered on making amends to black people

I asked my wife....who are these blonde people .....really a works oriented bunch


41 posted on 05/11/2021 9:35:55 AM PDT by wardaddy (Let me guess FREEPERS are now salivating over Tim Scott.....so predictable just like talk radio )
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To: wardaddy

You say that as if leftists ever target anything other than the largest group.


42 posted on 05/11/2021 10:15:34 AM PDT by Luircin
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To: Luircin

Sorry I don’t understand ....your post

I’ll try to respond

Leftist attack what they hate

Evangelical Lutherans were known as kooks even when I was a kid

It’s made Mo Synod stronger....

It’s culture and there is a reason it exists where it does and not so much where I come from


43 posted on 05/11/2021 10:18:29 AM PDT by wardaddy (Let me guess FREEPERS are now salivating over Tim Scott.....so predictable just like talk radio )
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To: SoFloFreeper

I was thinking the exact same thing.....


44 posted on 05/11/2021 10:18:45 AM PDT by Hardshell (Mollie Tibbetts)
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To: artichokegrower
One more example of the ongoing hypocrisy in organized religion...ALL organized religion.

They're/you're all hypocrites. Which is why I'm opposed to ALL organized religion.

45 posted on 05/11/2021 10:26:47 AM PDT by lewislynn ( How long before they replace Martin Luther King Blvd with George Floyd Blvd?)
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To: artichokegrower

“Major?” How big are they


46 posted on 05/11/2021 10:27:12 AM PDT by Persevero (I am afraid propriety has been set at naught. - Jane Austen )
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To: Persevero

Answering my own question 3.3 million according to wiki and declining.

R Catholic are 50 mill

Largest Protestant denom is southern Baptist at 16 mil.


47 posted on 05/11/2021 10:31:46 AM PDT by Persevero (I am afraid propriety has been set at naught. - Jane Austen )
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To: aberaussie; Aeronaut; aliquando; AlternateViewpoint; AnalogReigns; Archie Bunker on steroids; ...


Lutheran (EL C S*A) Ping!

* as of August 19, AD 2009, a liberal protestant SECT, not part of the holy, catholic and apostolic CHURCH.

Be rooted in Christ!

48 posted on 05/11/2021 10:56:18 AM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Nor are they Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ Lutherans or North American Lutheran Church Lutherans!


49 posted on 05/11/2021 10:58:05 AM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: SoFloFreeper
These are NOT the Missouri Synod Lutherans, folks. These are the unbiblical heretical Lutherans.

The ELCA has been increasingly heretical over a number of decades. I once sat with an ELCA pastor who later ran for the office of Bishop. He told me then that he had doubts that Jesus is God the Son. While I appreciated his candor, I was appalled that he failed to recognize his inherent duplicity.

50 posted on 05/11/2021 10:58:40 AM PDT by 70times7 (Serving Free Republics' warped and obscure humor needs since 1999!)
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To: lightman

If you construct the headline backwards, it will be easier to see where to put the asterisks.
:-)


51 posted on 05/11/2021 10:59:13 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Patriots, stop looking at the politicians as enemies. Look at the complicit Legacy Media.)
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To: artichokegrower

"I missed my period this month."

52 posted on 05/11/2021 11:32:12 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: lightman

It may well be right that Megan Rohrer uses the pronouns “they and them”! She may well harbor a legion of demons!!!!

We have quite a few well-qualified exorcists in the Orthodox Church, even in North America. Perhaps one can be dispatched to San Francisco, before this demoniac is installed as “bishop”!!!!


53 posted on 05/11/2021 11:56:03 AM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: artichokegrower

Disgusting.

You thought female pastors were bad?

How about fake female pastors? Or is it OK because they’re really male? LOL

Never mind the “welcoming” rainbow flags.

ELCA, I’ll never set foot in you again. Unless you repent. And help these people become normal instead of celebrating them as is.


54 posted on 05/11/2021 12:37:16 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs. I )
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To: SoFloFreeper

Beware MO Synod.

I’m cynical. EVERYONE betrays, it seems.

I checked the MOSynod site last year after all this rioting broke out. While they did not specifically invoke Black Lives Matter (as almost all do), they immediately put up a condescending and insulting notice about how important diversity is and love, etc. veiled shaming.

Watch out for ALL “churches”.


55 posted on 05/11/2021 12:44:35 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs. I )
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To: bk1000

Trannys are mentally ill and should be put away in institutions. Homos should be put away too. They are crazy and need to be separated from normal people!


56 posted on 05/11/2021 1:20:21 PM PDT by BatGuano ("Ya don't think that I'd go into combat with change in my pocket, do Ya?)
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To: wardaddy

Long story short, large sects tend to have centralized leadership, which makes it easy for leftists to infiltrate and subvert.


57 posted on 05/11/2021 2:36:17 PM PDT by Luircin
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To: livius

“Frankie’s hanging onto it”

At least in the desires of the Lutheran Church it will make one less partner to dance with. They think dancing can be a sin. Can be...but they aren’t totally sure.

“That the dance may become a vehicle of sin, as Luther pointed out (WA 1, 498; 24, 418–419), is evident from the development of the dance in decadent periods of history.

wy69


58 posted on 05/11/2021 4:58:59 PM PDT by whitney69
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To: artichokegrower

Sodomy’s swell!


59 posted on 05/11/2021 6:18:37 PM PDT by UnklGene
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To: Charles Henrickson

Cue up the ELCA song!


60 posted on 05/18/2021 5:12:00 AM PDT by PJ-Comix (Frank Luntz's Head Rug Is Transitioning to Muskrat)
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