ELCA PRESIDING BISHOP EMBRACES RADICAL MINORITY
The Associated Press story farther below describes how ELCA presiding bishop Hanson embraced homosexual sex act advocates he referred to as others, during the town hall meeting held Sunday, Dec. 6, 2009. He left a void by not stating how many "others" he was embracing. The following table fills that void and shows he was embracing nothing more than a loud and demanding radical minority.
If the bishop did not embrace this minority, let's hear him say so!! There is a big difference between embracing (to hold close) and espousing (to take in marriage)--the word his spokesman deviously used to deny him doing. There is a very slippery minority at ELCA headquarters.
PRESIDING ELCA BISHOP EMBRACED MINORITY OF "OTHERS" WHO WANT HOMOSEXUAL CLERGY TO PERFORM HOMOSEXUAL MARRIAGES IN THEIR ELCA CONGREGATIONS DESCRIPTION OF PLACES WHERE "OTHERS" THE PRESIDING BISHOP EMBRACED ARE FOUND % OF "OTHERS" FOUND THERE ELCA HEADQUARTERS 26% MINNESOTA ELCA SYNODS 5% IOWA ELCA SYNODS 4% ELCA SYNODS IN U. S. 4% IOWA ELCA CONGREGATIONS 3% ILLINOIS ELCA SYNODS 3% REGULAR WISCONSIN ELCA SUNDAY WORSHIP SERVICES 3% REGULAR IOWA ELCA SUNDAY WORSHIP SERVICES 2% REGULAR MINNESOTA ELCA SUNDAY WORSHIP SERVICES 2% REGULAR ILLINOIS ELCA SUNDAY WORSHIP SERVICES 2% Anyone claiming to have better numbers is asked to provide them for evaluation and comparison. NOTE: Only 60 Iowans, .02%, of the 255,000 ELCA church members in Iowa, were allowed to vote on the ELCA homosexual statement--that passed by only ONE vote!!
Associated Press - 12/9/2009 7:05:00 AM
CHICAGO - The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America says that in a town hall meeting Sunday, its presiding bishop was presenting the views of some within his denomination rather than his own views on the Bible and homosexuality.
A questioner asked Bishop Mark Hanson, "Where is there anything other than rejection of homosexual conduct within the Bible?"
Hanson responded that while some Lutherans cite those scriptures, there are others who say "the understanding we have of homosexuality today does not seem to be reflected at all in the context of the biblical writers, so let us bring our understanding of sexual orientation that has been opened up to humankind over the years to this conversation."
ELCA spokesman John Brooks says Hanson was citing that view without espousing it.