[lightman]

ELCA Lutherans are headed toward that same slippery slope. The much ballyhooed new "Evangelical Lutheran Worship" book allows "Father, Son, and Holy Spirit" as one option...or an "inclusivist" celebrant may instead invoke "Blessed be the holy Trinity, one God, who forgives all our sin and whose mercy endures forever."

Even worse are the seasonal antiphons for the invitatory Psalm of Morning Prayer. Instead of responding to such calls as "The Word was made flesh, and we beheld his glory" with "O come, let us worship him" the dreaded masculine pronoun has been replaced with "O come, let us worship and praise."

My 18 year old high functioning autistic son, for whom language is difficult and English class a major struggle "got it" right away: When I told him the new response, he simply said, "Who?...Worship and praise who?" Then, much to my astonishment, he added "that's not even an English sentence."

The M. Div's and D. Min's just can't stop praising the Emperor's new clothes but they were glaring transparent to my high schooler.

[AnAmericanMother]

Are the Loony Lutherans intending to suggest that Jesus was somehow NOT MALE?

(It is, technically speaking, an English sentence - even a usually active verb need not have an object (it becomes an intransitive verb temporarily) - but it's a very bad one, as your son correctly observed.)