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To: the_conscience
Doubtful.

As you wrote to another poster, are you going to give an argument or just make an assertion? What do you think these early reformers would have thought about the fact that the vast majority of their Lutheran theological descendants now belong to synods that permit women and active homosexuals to be clergy? It is hypocritical to attack the discipline of Catholic clergy without acknowledging the utter apostasy of the disciplines applied to most Lutheran clergy.

56 posted on 12/14/2009 12:00:30 PM PST by Ronaldus Magnus
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To: Ronaldus Magnus

First, your question is an anachronism and we just don’t know how Luther would have reacted.

Second, the issue of women clergy is a different issue and, at best, only tangentially related but the theological issues are of a different kind than clerical celibacy.

Finally, most conservative Protestants reject homosexual clergy while at the same time holding to the old arguments against a celibate clergy. Again, a different issue with different theological principles. Theology should drive pragmatism not the other way around.


96 posted on 12/14/2009 2:07:05 PM PST by the_conscience (I'm a bigot: Against Jihadists and those who support despotism of any kind.)
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