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Check out the video below made by a Minnesota ELCA church and posted by the Southeastern Minnesota Synod, ELCA (see the Synod's facebook page here) What are your thoughts on this video? Good, bad, cool, not cool, fine, wrong, mocking, sacrilegious or what? Harlem Shake (Palm Sunday Edition) Zion Lutheran Church Minot ND
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(the following was sent to me by Dean Kallenbach)
Brothers and sisters, Below you will read an email that was supplied to members of her congregation by the president of Grace Luthearn Church of Eau Claire, Anne Carter. As you can read in the summary, the judge in the case has sided with the ELCA-supported plaintiffs. The suit forces the congregation to leave its affiliation with Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ. As more information becomes available, I'll be certain to share it. Meanwhile, prayers for the congregation, its pastors and its leadership would be welcome. Dean LAWSUIT UPDATE In November 2011 a lawsuit was filed against Grace Lutheran Church by Amazing Grace ELCA, Inc. Today a decision regarding the case was filed with the courts by Judge Molly GaleWyrick. This afternoon I met with our attorney, Jay Heit, in a preliminary meeting to discuss the decision and any future action by counsels in the case. Pastor Nestingen and I also met briefly. Following is a synopsis of the decision. A full copy will be available in the church office on Monday for anyone to review. As with any legal document, there are terms unfamiliar to those outside the legal profession. So, to simplify and paraphrase the decision:
Those four directives are as follows:
In other words, Judge GaleWyrick has turned back to the church the implementation of a decision of the church. A congregational meeting will be scheduled in the near future for feedback and to answer questions. As we enter the celebration of Easter, may we remember that nothing that is done to honor our dear Lord is in vain. He loves us completely and rewards the faithful. Thank you for your prayers and support. Anne From Pope Benedict:
"The Church teaches that respect for homosexual persons cannot lead in any way to approval of homosexual behavior or to legal recognition of homosexual unions. The common good requires that laws recognize, promote and protect marriage as the basis of the family, the primary unit of society. Legal recognition of homosexual unions or placing them on the same level as marriage would mean not only the approval of deviant behavior, with the consequence of making it a model in present-day society, but would also obscure basic values which belong to the common inheritance of humanity." "In those situations where homosexual unions have been legally recognized or have been given the legal status and rights belonging to marriage, clear and emphatic opposition is a duty. One must refrain from any kind of formal cooperation in the enactment or application of such gravely unjust laws and, as far as possible, from material cooperation on the level of their application." "When legislation in favor of the recognition of homosexual unions is proposed for the first time in a legislative assembly, the Catholic law-maker has a moral duty to express his opposition clearly and publicly and to vote against it. To vote in favor of a law so harmful to the common good is gravely immoral. When legislation in favor of the recognition of homosexual unions is already in force, the Catholic politician must oppose it in the ways that are possible for him and make his opposition known; it is his duty to witness to the truth." http://secretinformationclub.com/pope-benedict-on-homosexual-marriage |
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