NEW BRIGHTON, Minn. - A decision by the country's largest Lutheran denomination to allow homosexual pastors to serve as clergy is leading a conservative opposition group to try to form an alternate Lutheran church body.
Leaders of Lutheran CORE said at a news conference in a Minneapolis suburb on Wednesday that they disagree with this August's decision on gay pastors by Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. They say they have heard from congregations and churchgoers from around the country who feel the same way. Lutheran CORE is a group within ELCA that has opposed letting homosexual pastors serve. They say it contradicts Scripture. The group's leaders say they don't know how many ELCA congregations might join the new denomination. They hope to have it begun by August.
Leaders of Lutheran CORE said at a news conference in a Minneapolis suburb on Wednesday that they disagree with this August's decision on gay pastors by Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. They say they have heard from congregations and churchgoers from around the country who feel the same way.
Lutheran CORE is a group within ELCA that has opposed letting homosexual pastors serve. They say it contradicts Scripture.
The group's leaders say they don't know how many ELCA congregations might join the new denomination. They hope to have it begun by August.
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