Die US-Blogs sind seit geraumer Zeit voll mit diesem Thema, gerade da die "US-Anglikaner" sich über genau das gleiche Thema zerstritten haben.Die evangelisch-lutherische Kirche der USA (ELCA) will künftig auch Homosexuelle als Geistliche aufnehmen, die in einer Beziehung leben. Mit dem Entscheid droht der Gemeinschaft die Spaltung.
Bei einer Versammlung in Minneapolis im US-Bundesstaat Minnesota verabschiedete die Organisation einen entsprechenden Antrag. Nach heftiger Debatte stimmten am Samstag 559 Delegierte für die Änderung, 451 waren dagegen. Schwulen und lesbischen Priestern und Priesterinnen, die in einer Beziehung lebten, solle so die Möglichkeit gegeben werden, ihr Amt in der Kirche auszuüben, sagte ein Sprecher der ELCA.
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Eine interessante Meinung dazu habe ich bei Fr. Longenecker, einem katholisch gewordenen Anglikaner, gelesen, der ein Ex-ELCA'ner zitiert:
http://gkupsidedown.blogspot.com/29/ ... -lies.html
Er sieht also einen schleichenden Prozess, mit dem dieses Thema immer wieder herausgeholt und solange darüber geredet wird, bis alle irgendwann ja sagen. Und genau das scheint ja bei der ELCA passiert zu sein.Yes, this is one of the devil's tactics too. I was reminded of it when Richard Ballard gave me a copy of the Episcopal Church's newspaper. They were embarking on yet another 'Study of Human Sexuality.' This was the exact ploy I experienced in the Anglican Church. They will talk and talk and talk and talk and produce study after study until they 'convince' people. In fact all the 'studies' are simply different and more extravagant ways of lying. Who was it who said, "Distrust anyone who attempts to make a simple truth complicated." I always perked up my ears when I heard an Anglican theologian, bishop or priest saying with a patronizing smile, "Ah, yes, but it's not quite as easy as that now is it?" or "Truth is rarely black and white is it?"I was ELCA Lutheran before converting to Catholicism. Even in the mid-9's I could see that the ELCA was sliding toward approval of homosex. I was a delegate to our synod with my wife and on the docket was a proposal to study homosexual issues. It was couched with the disclaimer that it is just a study and no one was approving of any homosexual acts, but when someone in support of it came up to the podium and harrangued us with the "First they came for the Jews" poem, my BS antennae went "boing". It sounded like the usual "just starting to dialog" stuff we always hear which I have since learned is code for: We-keep-talking-and-using-emotional-tyranny-until-you-unenlightened-rubes-cave. The measure was defeated barely, but I knew then that it was something that was going to continue to come up and that they could lose a hundred times, but only needed to win once. In the back of my mind the road map had only one destination: approval of homosex. Looks like Minneapolis will confirm this, but pray it won't.
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