[GFritsch]

"I'm disheartened (the decision) gives the impression the church is more interested in rules than in compassion."

Perhaps the ELCA is waking up to the fact that there are Ten Commandments, not Ten Suggestions.

[Koblenz]

"I'm disheartened (the decision) gives the impression the church is more interested in rules than in compassion."

Shouldn't churches have some rules about who is a pastor? Like besides being gay, maybe believing in Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, God, maybe having a good knowledge of the Bible, maybe having attended divinity school?

Why doesn't this guy find a job at a church that accepts gay preachers? Or start his own church?

[Mark was here]

He needs to be taken of the Rooster!

The problem here is he likes roosters instead of chicks.

[sirchtruth]

The ELCA, which has 4.9 million members, allows openly gay clergy, but only if they are celibate. Still, many Lutheran churches support ordaining partnered gays and perform same-sex blessing ceremonies despite the policy.

This says so much about how these people don't get the fact how they've succumed to an utterly convoluted and perverted path.

This is the exact opposite about how God instructs his church to behave.

[realpatriot]

"Perhaps the ELCA is waking up to the fact that there are Ten Commandments, not Ten Suggestions."

"But the committee also wrote that, if not bound by the rule, it "would find almost unanimously that Pastor Schmeling is not engaged in conduct that is incompatible with the ministerial office" and would order no discipline."

Dream on :(

[expatguy]

Where the hell do these people come from?

They are not like you or me, in fact they are not like anything that I wish to be associated with.

[WorkingClassFilth]

Perhaps the ELCA is waking up to the fact that there are Ten Commandments, not Ten Suggestions.

Nah.
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Living in the heart of ELCA country and having relatives in the great whore has given me a harder view. Their leadership is for the homosexual agenda and all things leftist, but they cannot operate openly at this time. If they did, all the blue haired old ladies that toss in their widow's mites would probably bail and the stinking ELCA would go belly up. When your leadership is pink running to red and your seminaries are toast, it's a good bet that the whole shebang is gone. IMO, Christians have no business in that place other than to use the rest rooms if they're caught in need near one of the synod buildings.

[Nathan Zachary]

"I'm disheartened (the decision) gives the impression the church is more interested in rules than in compassion."

Maybe the Church is more interested in following the word of God. The church can have compassion for the sinner, but that compassion is to help the sinner see the error of his ways, help if possible the sinner overcome the temptation of sin, to go forward and sin no more.
It does NOT mean ignore the word of God And embrace sin into the church, condemning it.

"Make sure that no one traps you and deprives you of your freedom by some secondhand, empty, rational philosophy based on the principles of this world instead of on Christ." Colossians 2:6-8

"This people honors me only with lip-service, while their hearts are far from me. The worship they offer me is worthless; the doctrines they teach are only human regulations." (Matt.15:8-9).

Gay ministers/ priests is a joke, a mokery of God's word and comandments. In the end, their reward will be death.

"It is not those who say to me 'Lord, Lord', who will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the person who does the will of my Father in heaven." (Mt.7:21).

[Wilhelm Tell]

Somewhere along the way the Seven Deadly Sins became the Seven New Sacraments. Good is called evil and evil is called good, right in our churches.

[Inge C]

What is it about these churches who willfully disobey God, having gays as ministers? How can a gay minister preach about morality? But then again, Jesus warned us about the ‘wolfs in sheep clothing, but underneaths are raven wolfs to carry you away as prey!” Nothing surprises me anymore.

[org.whodat]

Shouldn't that headline say rooster? Gay minister taken off Rooster, makes much more sense.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

"the 12-member disciplinary committee said they felt the church rule left them no choice..."
...but the policy of this church is clear..."

Sadly, even the LCMS is headed in this direction - pleading to the rules and regulations of man rather than The Word of God which is not mentioned AT ALL in either of the above decisions.