Also, to read LCMS President Harrison's full statement, plus some comments on it, go here:
Harrison issues "A Statement on Recent HHS Decision and Religious Freedom"
Lutheran Ping!
Christ is in our midst!
It is tragic that public opposition has come only from the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (LC-MS) and the North American Lutheran Church (NALC).
Conspicuosly silent are the Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ (LCMC, destination of many congregations that have departed the ELCA) and of course the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)
The ELCA silence is because this apostate body has supported abortion and contraception without restriction through its employee benefit program for decades.
This silence of the LCMC is mainly because this decentralized body lacks a true spokesperson and has only issued one public statement in its 11 year history, that on the sanctity of Marriage.