If there was any doubt left as to whether, or not, the ELCA was a Christian denomination it may have been completely removed. 

Religion Dispatches, “a daily online magazine dedicated to the analysis and understanding of religious forces in the world today,” is currently reporting: LGBT candidates can now be ordained. [1]

When your church or denomination ordains someone who’s in wilful, and unrepentant, sin it has ceased to be a church of Jesus Christ.

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Endnotes:  

1. http://www.religiondispatches.org/blog/2485/_elca_removes_all_barriers_to_gay_inclusion/, accessed 4/20/10.

See also:

ELCA AND HOMOSEXUALITY  

ELCA WITHHOLDING GOSPEL FROM THOSE IN PRISON OF HOMOSEXUALITY 

PRESIDING ELCA BISHOP MARK HANSON SPEAKING OUT OF BOTH SIDES OF HIS MOUTH? 

THE SIN OF HOMOSEXUALITY IS DIFFERENT

CORRECTING BRIAN MCLAREN “ON FAITH” AND HOMOSEXUALITY

JENNIFER KNAPP AND HOMOSEXUALITY

AN IN-DEPTH LOOK AT WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT HOMOSEXUALITY