The Evangelical Lutheran Church of America abandons the Bible, selects a Transgender as the Archbishop of the Sierra Pacific Synod

The excitement in San Francisco is palpable. As SFGate, an independent spin-off of the San Francisco Chronicle, boasts, "San Francisco achieves yet another first in LGBTQ+ history with transgender bishop." The huge Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (ELCA), with its 3.3 million members nationwide, is proud of itself. It shouldn't be. The decision to give an archbishopric to a man who claims to have magically become a woman because he wants to be is profoundly anti-biblical. The appointment is also an insult to coherent grammar and, as I've argued in the past, proof that nobody on the left really believes this "transgender" garbage.

The headline is that many in San Francisco are thrilled that the Rev. Dr. Megan Roher, who is male but thinks he's female, is now an archbishop in the ELCA:

For the Rev. Dr. Megan Rohrer, who was installed on Sunday, Sept. 12, as the Bishop of the Sierra Pacific Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (ELCA), and who uses they/them pronouns, progress has meant a sort of learning what not to hear.
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Tact is one thing, but feeling the need to apologize for clearly stating your pronouns is a form of internalized transphobia, the bishop maintains. And they feel [sic] a responsibility to demonstrate how to right this wrong.
"I have a trans child, for whom, if 'they' isn't used, will be in tears for days," Rohrer says. "That has given me the permission to be really public about it: 'Nope, you're going to use "they," because if you screw up with me, I'm going to have grace about it.' Letting people know my pronouns and my name is great."
"Not on every piece of stationery," they add [sic], "but enough that people can Google it."

Is Megan Rohrer really a male-to-female transgender as the article says?

I thought that “they were” a biological woman who “transitioned” into a “non-binary”, via hormones and surgery. But now I can’t find any article to answer that question!

And “are they” really an “archbishop”, as opposed to a “bishop”? YIKES!!!!

Remember—the only person in the Bible who was a “they” was “Legion”, whom our Lord exorcized of a legion of demons by casting them into a herd of swine!!!!

As weird as this story reads, I believe ELCA did more damage to itself when it declared itself in "full communion" with the usual suspects of liberal American Protestantism.

I do see that world at large, even the commentators on Christian Satellite Radio, believe that Lutheran = ELCA. It's a shame it's come to this, but perhaps the best thing LCMS and WELS could do for their reputation is remove the word Lutheran from their names.

I ended my Lutheran days as Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ (LCMC). I completely understand. The smaller, more orthodox bodies are tarred by the big brush of ELCA.

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Rev. Dr. Megan Rohrer, The First Trans Lutheran Bishop.