Posted on 06/25/2022 1:00:35 PM PDT by ferg flute
ELCA presiding bishop issues pastoral message on Roe v. Wade ruling June 24, 2022
Elizabeth A. Eaton, presiding bishop of the ELCA, has issued a pastoral message on the Supreme Court’s ruling regarding Roe v. Wade. “Whatever personal perspective one might take on the June 24 abortion ruling from the Supreme Court, it is the legal framework in which we now minister,” Eaton said in the message. “This church’s 1991 social statement Abortion argues that ‘the number of induced abortions is a source of deep concern’ but teaches that the practice should be legal (pp. 3, 9-10). … Overturning Roe v. Wade and placing decisions about abortion regulation at the state level encumbers and endangers the lives of all persons who need to make decisions about unexpected pregnancies.”
full article at https://www.livinglutheran.org/2022/06/elca-presiding-bishop-issues-pastoral-message-on-roe-v-wade-ruling/
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No explanation necessary, she’s the interim pastor. Once the call is filled with someone selected by the congregation, I will resume my regular participation.
Many have stopped attending since the interim was placed.
While I’m not happy about the church my wife was raised in, and specifically, the ELCA, I do love my wife enough to suck it up and put a smile on my face for a couple of hours per week.
God will judge us all, regardless of which of his houses we find ourselves in on Sunday mornings.
That said, it is amazing how many of our congregants are far more conservative than their spouses.
It’s amazing how much we are able to hold our noses at so much of what we see in this country.
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