My dad is a retired ELCA pastor, and he thinks that no Christian church should consider ordaining gays or performing gay weddings. He said that the majority of Lutherans are Republicans and that the majority of Lutheran pastors are Democrats. He doesn’t know the reason. I read that, according to a 1988 survey, 63% of Lutherans voted for George H.W. Bush. Nationwide, he only got 54%.
I used to be a member of WELS. The Pastor told me several times that there is an increasing amount of people teaching religious doctrine in seminary that don’t believe in Jesus as God. Pure insanity, you can’t call yourself a Christian without Christ.