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LOL! Didn't read the whole article, but scanned enough of it to realize it is more of "inside" baseball than anything.

The Yankee Stadium event was one where a pastor of the Atlantic District prayed in the Oprah event for 9-11 in Yankee stadium. Along with Muslims, Jews, Hindus, and a whole assortment of other groups. The problems (as I stated in post 220) is that implies that all those religions point to the same god. Which they don't.

But the event isn't quite that simple. Of all the Christian leaders present, Benecke (if I spelled his name right) was the only one to pray out loud in the name of Jesus Christ. Which caused a lot of discomfort from the others on the podium with him. Also, he got permission to participate from his district president before hand.

The "inside" part of it is that the reason it became such a charged issue was that those who blasted him for the event did so partially because of a recent Synod election. Personally, I am not that comfortable with a pastor praying with other religions, but in the way he did it he at least prayed to Jesus. So it was not the best thing, but not a huge deal.

That is a matchbook synopsis of the controversy. It goes deeper than that, but to really explore it would take another thread.

The concern over the Boy Scouts is from a similar view as I expressed in post 220.