The Lutheran Church Allows Gays To Serve As Ministers!

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America has lifted the ban denying sexually active gays and lesbians the right to serve as ministers!!!

Bravo!!!!

The ban had previously prohibited members of the gay and lesbian community who were not celibate from becoming ministers for the church, but now gays and lesbians in “committed relationships” may be hired by ELCA congregations as ministers!

An impressive 68% of the 1,000 members of ECLA’s national assembly agreed to lift the ban in a vote taken on Friday.

Although many members of the clergy are troubled by the ECLA’s decision, the fight for equal rights in the clergy overruled the naysayers’ beliefs.

Said Rev. Leslie Williamson of the Trinity Lutheran Church in Des Plains, Ill: ”I have seen these same-gender relationships function in the same way as heterosexual relationships — bringing joy and blessings as well as trials and hardships. ‘The same-gender couples I know live in love and faithfulness and are called to proclaim the word of God as are all of us.”

This is one giant step in the right direction!