For those that may not be familiar with Lutheranism in America, the ELCA does not represent all Lutherans. There are real Lutherans in other denominations, such as the LC-MS, WELS, and ELS. The ELCA is typical of all mainline liberal Protestant denominations. There is not a dime’s worth of difference between them. The ELCA abandoned the Bible and the Lutheran Confessions decades ago. As in all liberal church bodies, the secular liberal culture determines its ideology. Notice that I did not say, theology. The ELCA has no theology, for it is now all liberal political activism.
A lot of the ELCA’s troubles started when they began to ordain women.
Cherchez la femme!