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It is my opinion that homosexuality has been unfairly singled out among sins as somehow worse than others, largely because it is exclusive to a certain population and easily renounced by the rest. Not everyone is a drunk. But most have enjoyed a drink. Not everyone is a thief. But most have stolen something at some point. Not everyone is a adulator. But 60% of us are. It's easier to sympathize with sinners you can understand, who have committed the same sins you have, whose struggle you can comprehend and relate to. It is more difficult to sympathize with a sin you do not understand, and remarkably easy to demonize it. I do not understand homosexuality...

I am ELCA (today) but I don't think I will be clicking through to comment.

I'll assume the comment was meant to provoke, because the fallacy of your proposition is too glaring to overlook, too towering to ignore.

There's no organized presence in the church seeking to argue that Scripture doesn't really condemn the thief, that Scripture has somehow been superceded by a "New Thing."

There's also no organized presence in the church advocating for thieves to be pastors.

To paraphrase Michael Medved, "The 'love that dare not mention it's name' has been repaced by 'the love that refuses to shut up!'"

I'll assume the comment was meant to provoke, because the fallacy of your proposition is too glaring to overlook, too towering to ignore.
There's no organized presence in the church seeking to argue that Scripture doesn't really condemn the thief, that Scripture has somehow been superceded by a “New Thing.
There's also no organized presence in the church advocating for thieves to be pastors.”

The only thing I intend to provoke is discussion in a spirit of goodwill with the goal of understanding. I am not sure what you object to. My “argument” in the section you quoted is simply that homosexuality receives disproportionate focus as sin, while many other sins tend to be sympathized with. I don't think that is a radical notion. I understand your point that no one is trying to ordain drunks and thieves. I am supposing that the movement to ordain homosexuals has been able to gain traction because in recognition of and response to that disproportionate focus. I don't know if I'm right. It may be simpler than that. It may just be that people don't know or care about scripture. I'm just trying to understand it.