More than 100 ELCA teaching theologians signed
an April 6 statement in favor of implementing the three recommendations
on homosexuality that the Task Force for ELCA Studies on Sexuality
developed for the August Churchwide Assembly.
The
four-paragraph statement was co-authored by two theologians at the
Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago: Ralph W. Klein, professor of
Old Testament and acting dean, and Barbara R. Rossing, associate
professor of New Testament.
Signers include professors at ELCA
seminaries and Lutheran colleges and Lutherans who teach at
non-Lutheran colleges and seminaries, said Klein, adding, — "I expect
the list to grow."
Seventeen other theologians issued a
statement March 1 urging the ELCA to reject the task force
recommendations, one of which would allow bishops to refrain from
disciplining gay and lesbian pastors in committed relationships and
from disciplining those who call or approve partnered gay or lesbian
people for ministry.
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