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2021-09-12 Olde Tyme Religion

Evangelical Lutheran church installs 1st transgender bishop

How exciting.

[APNEWS] The Evangelical Lutheran Church of America installed its first openly transgender bishop in a service held in the Socialist paradise of San Francisco
...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964...
’s Grace Cathedral on Saturday.The Rev. Megan Rohrer will lead one of the church’s 65 synods, overseeing nearly 200 congregations in Northern Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, and northern Nevada.

Rohrer was elected in May to serve a six-year term as bishop of the Sierra Pacific Synod after its current bishop announced his retirement.

"I step into this role because a diverse community of Lutherans in Northern California and Nevada prayerfully and thoughtfully voted to do a historic thing," Rohrer said in a statement. "My installation will celebrate all that is possible when we trust God to shepherd us forward."

Rohrer, who uses the pronoun "they," previously served as pastor of Grace Lutheran Church in San Francisco and a chaplain coordinator for the city’s police department, and also helped minister to the city’s homeless and LGTBQ community. They studied religion at Augustana University in their hometown of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, before moving to California to pursue master and doctoral degrees at the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley.

Rohrer became one of seven LGBTQ pastors accepted by the progressive Evangelical Lutheran church in 2010 after it allowed ordination of pastors in same-sex relationships. Rohrer is married and has two children.

The church is one of the largest Christian denominations in the United States with about 3.3 million members.

Posted by Fred 2021-09-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [13 views ] Top

#1 One of the reasons ELCA has not seen me enter any of there doors since before 2020

Posted by 3dc 2021-09-12 03:29|| 2021-09-12 03:29|| Front Page Top

#2

What any church allows as it leader, says a lot about the church. So are they avoiding the word of GOD for butts in the seats and $$$$ in the collection plate?

Posted by NN2N1 2021-09-12 07:49|| 2021-09-12 07:49|| Front Page Top

#3 So are they avoiding the word of GOD for butts in the seats and $$$$ in the collection plate?

More like butts in the seats. The new 'enlightened' folks don't really understand tithes and charity.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2021-09-12 08:21|| 2021-09-12 08:21|| Front Page Top

#4 This seems to be a popular marketing mistake lately:
We already own x% of the market.
If we change our brand we can pick up an additional y%.
The fly in the ointment is that the original customers don't like the new brand and bail for something more to their taste. See the NFL, for example.

Posted by SteveS 2021-09-12 09:27|| 2021-09-12 09:27|| Front Page Top

#5 Done with ECLA long ago.

Posted by Xyz 2021-09-12 10:38|| 2021-09-12 10:38|| Front Page Top

#6 Religion as a "pick only what you want" buffet... Heh™

Posted by magpie 2021-09-12 11:54|| 2021-09-12 11:54|| Front Page Top

#7 The church is one of the largest Christian denominations in the United States with about 3.3 million members.

However, when they were formed (back in the 1980s if memory serves), they had about 10 million members.

Like the old joke: How do you get to be a "large" liberal denomination? Answer: You start out as a much larger one.

Posted by Tom 2021-09-12 12:55|| 2021-09-12 12:55|| Front Page Top

#8 Many relatives switching to Missouri Synod Lutheran

Posted by 3dc 2021-09-12 20:21|| 2021-09-12 20:21|| Front Page Top

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