The ECLA is pro-abortion, and has been for years. If a preacher is going to get up and tell the congregation it’s just fine to kill babies, does it really matter what he goes home and does with his “partner”?
This past Sunday the local Lutheran church in my town voted to leave. They first voted last spring and fell far short - there was no second vote 90 days later. However on their second go around yes. Close to 100% of those voting did so to break away. Also a church about 21 miles west of here left the ECLA a year or so ago.
it seems that acceptance of abortion and divorce is the slippery slope towards what is happening in the ELCA, ecusa and pcusa.