With that said, Pastor Lura N. Groen has been endorsed and placed into postions of influence and leadership by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
- Last year, Rev. Groen was "elected to the Discipline Committee" at the 2019 Delaware-Maryland Synod (See page 2 here).
- Delaware-Maryland Synod (ELCA) Bishop Bill Gohl is very familiar with Rev. Groen saying, "Pastor Lura Groen, with whom I belong to a weekly pericope Bible study group and who I know to be a (hard) truth-teller..." (See here).
- Rev. Groen was a guest speaker, teaching a class at an ELCA seminary.
- She was even on a panel discussion with the ELCA's Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton as you can see in the picture above.
Below are some writings and social media content from Rev. Groen. Sorry for the shocking and odious content. How can the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America leadership allow someone, who speaks and believes as this pastor does, to rise in their leadership ranks? How can they allow Rev. Groen and many ELCA pastors like her, to mock the One True God?
The ELCA is culpable and responsible for this. They allow it and give it a platform in their midst.
The true God of Scripture is not the God the ELCA serves. The Holy Spirit does not dwell in it.
Some of Rev. Groen's comments get even worse:
Jesus was Queer, anti-establishment, pro-heaux, and rejected heteronormative relationship models. https://t.co/L3er24ndL3
— Lura Groen (@lura_groen) April 30, 2020
Did it work? pic.twitter.com/D6jLnR5Aku
— Lura Groen (@lura_groen) April 28, 2020
God is fat. And She twerks marvelously.
— Lura Groen (@lura_groen) January 9, 2020
And you know what? You don’t fucking know if She has diabetes. And it’s none of your fucking business. She’s glorious either way.
In the next post Rev. Lura Groen shared an article titled "What Promiscuity Taught Me About God's Love." The article was from QueerTheology.com.
I honestly believe it’s our shame that has perverted our sexuality. Shame that had been too often taught by the church.
— Lura Groen (@lura_groen) April 29, 2020
Trying to control the gender and sexuality God has given people twists it into terrible things.
I don’t know who needs to hear this* but:
— Lura Groen (@lura_groen) July 26, 2019
Feeling your anger can be fucking revolutionary.
Sometimes I say fuck, but usually only when I’m talking about holiness, so now you’re prepared.
— Lura Groen (@lura_groen) July 22, 2019
Unpopular opinion: Divorce can be a really good thing, and more people should probably get them. https://t.co/PHyEVaPGNd
— Lura Groen (@lura_groen) July 16, 2019
Now I’m Queer. Not just LGBT, as in let’s expand heteronormative relationship structures to same sex people, but Queer, as in, fuck heteronormative relationship structures, because they’re based in capitalism and white supremacy.
— Lura Groen (@lura_groen) May 1, 2020
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