Laeodicean as Usual

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Yahoo News: Lutherans to allow pastors in gay relationships

As usual, the ELCA fails to actually take a stand on this and instead issues a tepid ruling suggesting that practicing GLBT pastors not be punished.Â? I have a feeling that this will be all the rage in metro and some coastal synods and places like Montana will tell CWA where they can stick their decision.Â? (One of the reasons I love Montana: people aren’t afraid to stand up to the authorities.)

I also noticed that Yahoo! News took out the statements from the Lutheran CORE pastors who opposed it and also failed to mention that it was a margin of 107 votes in an assembly of 1000.Â? Way to be fair and balanced!

(For those who are going to lambast me for pointing out the margin of votes, let me explain something. For something like this to work, there needs to be an overwhelming margin — like 85%, not 55/45 like this vote was.Â? Something like this on a margin that slim is just going to cause schism, not change.)

I can also just imagine what’s going to happen in the Lutheran World Federation when this news hits the fan.

Churchwide Assembly 2007 Schtuff

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Ah… where two or three are gathered, there WILL be politics.

Bishop Hanson got re-elected as presiding bishop on the 2nd ballot.Â? (He was 2 votes short on the first.)Â? I’m not amused because he’s a revisionist idiot (IMHO) but he’s also head of the Lutheran World Federation at the moment which is going to keep him (for the moment) from doing anything too stupid as pissing off the remainder of the world’s Lutherans is *NOT* a good thing to do.

All the social justice things passed (not even an issue in this church).Â? The same-sex marriage stuff is being sent to the sexuality taskforce which I’m not sure is entirely good because it seems like the taskforce’s job is simply to spin the changing of the social statement into something pretty.Â? (Basically, it’s a 50/50 split in the church which means that there is going to be pain and suffering in 2009 for at least half of the church with whatever comes out.)

The most amusing memorial/resolution/amendment/whatever was the whole adopting of the “Book of Faith: Lutherans Read the Bible”.Â? For a denomination that claims sola Scriptura, this should not be all that surprising that we actually, like, READ the Bible and, like, APPLY it.

Argh. Bad Fire Season! No Cookie!

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I just cleaned part of my study and I’d like to take out the trash.Â? The problem: we have to burn our trash and it’s just a bit unsafe to burn ANYTHING at the moment given the fire weather conditions.

(For those who are wondering, we don’t have trash pick-up here so stuff in the barrels accumulates during the summer.Â? We also don’t have recycling so we take cans and stuff to Great Falls when we remember.)

I’d like to unclutter the upstairs but it’s just not working out…

Medicating the Monster

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Freya has this noxious hair medicine that she has to take for a few days and I’m thankful the vet gave us a syringe so I don’t have to touch it.Â? She spit most of it up on me yesterday at the vet so I was not looking forward to today.

Well… I closed off the door to the bedroom so that I wouldn’t have to get her out from under the bed and I then got the meds into the syringe.Â? (It’s this gooey brown gel that looks like beef-flavored toothpaste.)Â? I then cornered her and wrapped her in one of the catghans that my mother-in-law has made for my brats.Â? Having just her little fanged head sticking out, I discovered that if I shot the gel onto the roof of her mouth, she’d swallow it and not ooze it out the other side.Â? It took some work (gel + syringe = hard to eject) but she got all of it in.

Now if she’ll either vomit or expel the hairballs otherwise…

My Little Spitfire

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Freya has a furball or something that she just can’t cough up and she’s just not her usual evil self so… she has an appointment with the vet in Shelby at 4 to be examined.

I’m hoping they don’t have to do any bloodwork… especially since she tried to kill the vet and the techs assisting last time. (3 people to hold down [at that time] a 10 lb cat — that’s my girl!)

***UPDATE***Â? Well… she behaved well at the vet until it was time to give her a shot in the leg.Â? (It took 4 of us to hold her down.Â? That’s my gremlin!)Â? She also did *NOT* want to take her hairball meds and kept spitting it on me.

Otherwise, she’s a healthy little girl — all 13.5 lbs of her.Â? Her doctor thinks she’s beautiful and a sweetheart.

Where Two Or Three Are Gathered… There WILL Be Politics

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Churchwide Assembly has started on Navy Pier in Chicago and already there’s controversy.Â? A list of 80 openly GLBT pastors has been distributed.Â? Said pastors/candidates put their names out in the open in protest against the rule that GLBT clergy must remain chaste and I do believe said rule is going to be HOTLY debated at the Assembly.

Pray for us in the ELCA that we can come to an agreement on something instead of this endless loop of dialogue that is making everything worse.