More reaction to the ELCA sexuality task force report.

Alan Wisdom from the Institute on Religion and Democracy weighs in on the conservative side....

Here is an excerpt from the rather lengthy article:

The just-released report from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America’s (ELCA) Task Force for Studies on Sexuality offers what is clearly intended to be a compromise. But its recommendations regarding same-sex blessings and homosexual ordination do not represent a true “middle way.” They represent no way at all. By letting the church’s standards on marriage and sexuality stand on paper, while gutting those standards of any practical force in the life of the church, the task force would leave the denomination with no real standards of any sort. It would detach the ELCA from everything that gives it strength and life.

If adopted, this non-solution would not bring any lasting peace to the ELCA. At most, it would lend the appearance of a truce. But the price of that temporary truce would be exceedingly high. It would be an almost total abdication of the church’s responsibility to proclaim God’s will for human sexuality. There would be no clear answer to give young Lutherans who asked, “How does my church believe that I should conduct myself sexually?” The mute ELCA would move ever closer to cultural irrelevance, unable to challenge a society in which “every man [does] what is right in his own eyes” (Judges 17:6).

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---Katie