[Charles Henrickson]

The ELCA is the "Evangelical Lutheran Church in America," but in reality it is the "Extremely Liberal Church in America" or the "Ex-Lutheran Church in America." For years they have been throwing out God's Word. Now this week they are adding to that by condoning homosexuality, even among clergy.

I am a pastor in the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (LCMS), and we have plenty of problems of our own, which I am not reluctant to speak out against. But this latest stuff from the ELCA is so egregious it cries out for condemnation.

(BTW, I originally started out in an ELCA-predecessor church body, the old Swedish Augustana Synod.)

[Charles Henrickson]

Ping.

[GeronL]

May a tornado knock over their cross.

[Charles Henrickson]

The ELCA, also known as the ELCGay or the ELDNCA.

[Belteshazzar]

Very good, Charles.

It doesn’t quite replace “A Mighty Fortress is our God,” does it? On the other hand, it far more accurately catches the essence of the ELCA, which has for some time been decidedly not Lutheran. Now it is moving into the territory of the ludicrous. I don’t think that the leadership and most of its pastors realize what a joke they are becoming, and how little respect they have from either the world or the rest of Christendom. They just talk to each other in their little echo chambers and plot (and plod) on, one lemming after the other. So, maybe, to go along with your new choir anthem for the ELCA a name change as well: Eminently Ludicrous Church in America. The upper crust of the ELCA won’t get it, but everyone else will.

[bcsco]

As I wrote on "The Wittenberg Trail"...

When I got to

"And where seldom
Is a word ever heard
To discourage sin or error.

I reflexively sang instead...

"And seldom is heard
A discouraging word
And the skies are not cloudy all day"

Just a habit from loving old B Western music...

[Nosterrex]

Just as most of us would like the democrats to change its name to the National Socialist Party, I wish that the ELCA would drop the word, Lutheran, from its name. For that matter, it would help to drop the word, church, too. It is neither Lutheran nor a Church. Maybe it could be called the EA, for Extremely Asinine. For those in the EA, don't walk away from this puss pocket of heresy, but run!

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

No time for an overture to the 2010 SC.

May God grant that it be brought from the floor.

[freemama]

I think we need to get a few of the more ‘progressive’ ELCA pastors on to the idea that the Lutheran in their name just sounds so old-church and really needs to be dropped. You know, it will draw in so many more young people that way. :)

[wideminded]

See #16, #18.

[huskerjim]

ping from ex-LCA current LCMS member.

[gogeo]

Again, excellent!

[Tijeras_Slim]

All my in-laws are LCMS... they never got the memo that it’s OK to have a sense of humor.