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.