Kind of like liberals “escaping” to conservative places for lower taxes, eh? Then ruining everything as they keep voting the same.
Hm. Don’t quite think so - watched the circus of August 2009 of Minneapolis, in which the Synod’s delegates voted to allow active homosexuals to become pastors in the ELCA by 667 votes out of 1000, and almost immediately afterward, a tornado (out of season and not on the radar) rolled through town and knocked over the steeple on the church at which this vote was taken and then also all the picnic tents pitched for lunch afterward. Do not believe that the LORD was pleased by this abomination.
The churches that began leaving the ELCA after this had to join another synod after taking two churchwide votes to leave, or else they could not keep their property. Difficult and traumatic operation, and many churches just split or members voted with feet and funds. The remainder seem to just continue Californication.
Am no longer a Lutheran, but enjoy Lutheran Satire (Missouri Synod Pastor Hans Fiene)
:
https://www.youtube.com/c/TheLutheranSatire/videos
Luther’s Mixtape (Worms I)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzPe2Xyn1OQ
Saint Patrick: The Musical
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHr02U1OYVk