What's Happening in Other Denominations?
Lutheran Church (ELCA)
August 21, 2009: The ELCA voted to allow clergy who are in "publicly accountable, lifelong, monogamous, same-gender relationships."
Lutheran Church (ELCA)
Aug. 21, 2009: The ELCA voted "yes" on homosexual 'relationships'
Lutheran Church (ELCA)
The ELCA has endorsed by the narrowest of margins an official statement on human sexuality that says there's room in the church for differing views. (August 2009)
Lutheran Church (ELCA)
This Open Letter encourages Voting Members of the ELCA Churchwide Assembly (August 2009) to vote 'no' to allowing same-sex blessings and the ordination of pastors in committed homosexual relationships.
The Episcopal Church
August, 2009: An article by Rev. Philip W. Turner, Vice-President of The Anglican Communion Institute, on why he intends to remain in the Episcopal Church, even with all of its problems.
United Methodist Church
July 2009: United Methodists have defeated amendments that would have made church membership open to all Christians regardless of sexual orientation and furthered the creation of a new, U.S.-only governing body.