[Iscool]

The article is unfair in that it lumps the orthodox and liberal denominations with the same origin together. I am certain, for example, that you would find 90% of ELCA Lutheran pastors supporting homosexual marriage, but only 1 or 2% of LCMS, just like the evangelicals; throw the two denominations together and you get 45%.

Perhaps one of the other should have changed their name so as not to confuse people...

[Mr. Lucky]

The problem is that the Missouri Synod (and the Wisconsin Synod and several others) adhere to the unaltered Ausburg Confession, the foundation confession of Lutheranism; the ELCA doesn’t, but claims to be Lutheran because it lends a sort of legitimacy to their apostasy.