Is there any way to ban the ELCA from using the term Lutheran?
I wish. Lifelong LCMS and I now cringe to tell people I’m a Lutheran—I always add an explanation that I’m not one of those Lutherans.
From the closing of the piece, it is clear that these middle aged women believe they have a crack at doing what those who supported the 1960s civil rights did: Looking noble in the face of bigotry. Except this issue is far more complicated, more dubious, less about civil rights and more about an agenda of selfishness and control.
It is just stunning to me that the gay agenda was able to fly the banner of “civil rights” and “equality” - something which they themselves do not believe, but the idiots at whom they throw their propaganda do believe - and so many have swallowed it hook, line, and sinker:
“Our state is contemplating losing its soul.” ...
The movement has become exactly what Henderson envisioned when she first bought the flags. . . . “Maybe in seeing those flags, people will see that in this neighborhood there’s more support out there for this issue than they had assumed. Maybe it will get people thinking, and maybe give them courage. That was my hope.”
I wish. Martin Luther may not have been perfect. Some say he intensely disliked Jews. Others that he ripped the book of James from his Bible.
But nobody can deny that he was giant in contributions to Christian thought and theology. The ELCA seriously damages the brand.