Gay pastor tests celibacy rule
Gay pastor tests celibacy rule :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Religion
The new bishop in the Chicago Metropolitan Synod faces his first test case on the celibacy requirement for gay clergy in the nation's largest Lutheran denomination. Resurrection Lutheran Church in Lake View plans to ordain Jen Rude as its associate pastor in a 2 p.m. public ceremony Nov. 17. She's a lesbian who won't vow a lifetime of celibacy because she considers the rule discriminatory. Heterosexual pastors can marry in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Rude said she isn't in a committed relationship now, but remains hopeful about finding a life partner. "God is the actor in all of this," said Rude, 27, whose father and grandfather are ELCA pastors.Who says that women's ordination isn't a slippery slope? Now homosexuals and just wait for the kid pastors. I guess "husband of one wife" was only a principle for Paul to Timothy, restricted to that age. We're more enlightened than the Apostle. Perhaps we should rewrite Scripture as it seems we aren't happy with what it says about the office of the Holy Ministry. Mandates are far too restrictive.
