Sometimes we need to hear it from outside our little Lutheran bubble:
Sex and the Lutheran Youth Group
by Frank Pastore (via Townhall.com)
How do they do it?
I mean, how can the leadership of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (ELCA) tell their kids with a straight face not to be sexually active outside of marriage when they’ve just voted last Saturday to no longer enforce the celibacy requirement for their unmarried staff—both straight and gay?
Click on the title to read the article.
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I don't get where we voted on anything but same-sex relationships, but in all practicality, heterosexual non-marital sex tends to be ignored already. From what I understand a staff person at my ELCA church was living with an opposite sex partner and the person in authority over her was told not to do anything about it by the then Senior pastor. The ELCA has been glossing over issues of sexual sin for a long time. This is nothing new....
---Katie
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