If I did not make it clear, I was not trying to smear the membership of ELCA but was attacking Dr. Marty whom I had thought was the head of that denomination. If I was wrong about that, I wanted to ping you for confirmation one way or another since you would know better than I.
As I have posted in the past, my mother's closest friend was a very old-fashioned Methodist woman who spent her last twenty or so years unchurched since the area Methodist Churches in our community offered her no genuinely Bible-based preachers or pastors. She was not Catholic at all but she was the most Christian woman I ever hope to know. I have never believed the claim that one must be a Catholic to go to heaven. Whatever my differences with reformed churches, I respect many of their members including you. May God bless you and yours.