The president of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod expressed “great disappointment and deep sadness” over a proposal that would allow gays and lesbians in committed relationships to serve as clergy in the larger and more liberal Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Gerald B. Kieschnick, in a letter to his 2.5 million-member denomination, said the change “would constitute a radical departure from the 2,000-year-long teaching of the Christian tradition that homosexual activity, whether inside or outside of a committed relationship, is contrary to Holy Scripture.” …

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