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Article: Gays, Lesbians, and Lutherans.
- Article from:
- First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
- Article date:
- June 1, 1999
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Just when you've talked yourself into thinking it might not be so bad to belong to the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) after all, the church comes out with another study on sex. This time it's from the Division for Outreach (DO), by way of the Gay and Lesbian Outreach Study Team, and it's called, "Congregational Ministry with Gay and Lesbian People." Actually, the DO report isn't really about sex at all, or, more precisely, it doesn't talk about sex. The report's authors, like Nice Christians everywhere, think it very bad form to talk about sex when you talk about gays and lesbians. You should talk instead--you should talk only--about discrimination, ...