I knew this was coming and that is why I left the ELCA over a year ago. They need to rename it... the ALCA... Apostate Lutheran Congregation of America.
What took you so long? We left seventeen years ago. :) It’s a tragedy. I grew up in the former ALC. Too bad they can’t just simply disband the ELCA and let former congregations go back to what they were before the fateful merger.
I was a member of ELCA churches, 1989-2008. In Jan. 2008, I decided to join a LCMS church, because I agree with them, about gays. In March ‘08, my dad, a retired ELCA pastor who joined an LCMS church, told me that the ELCA taskforce on sexuality recommended that the ELCA not ordain gays or hold gay weddings. I was thrilled by that news, and, last Nov., I joined an ELCA church. Soon, I might regret that decision.