Evangelical Lutheran church installs 1st
transgender bishop
Associated Press,
by
Staff
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
9/12/2021 1:46:35 PM
San Francisco—The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America installed its first openly transgender bishop in a service held in San Francisco's Grace Cathedral on Saturday. The Rev. Megan Rohrer will lead one of the church's 65 synods, overseeing nearly 200 congregations in Northern California and northern Nevada. “My call is… to be up to the same messy, loving things I was up to before,” Rohrer told worshippers. “But mostly, if you'll let me, and I think you will, my hope is to love you and beyond that, to love what you love.”
Reply 1 - Posted by:
hershey 9/12/2021 1:48:48 PM (No. 912116)
Don't Lutherans read the Bible??? Try Romans for starters...
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
winmag 9/12/2021 1:50:06 PM (No. 912117)
Wow, how trendy and stylish.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
DVC 9/12/2021 1:51:03 PM (No. 912119)
Installing the mentally ill into church positions......shows that the church leaders are not serious people, and should be shunned in all ways.
No money should be sent to support their insanity and all should no longer pay the slightest attention to what they say or do.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Italiano 9/12/2021 1:54:31 PM (No. 912121)
"Depart from Me, Evangelical Lutheran Church. I never knew you."
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Sickening. Truly sickening... and sad.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
udanja99 9/12/2021 1:59:31 PM (No. 912127)
#1, then they should read Leviticus.
This is not a church, it’s more like a social club for the woke.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
zzzghy 9/12/2021 2:10:26 PM (No. 912135)
“My call is ... to be up to the same messy, loving things I was up to before,” Rohrer told worshippers. “But mostly, if you'll let me, and I think you will, my hope is to love you and beyond that, to love what you love.”
And there you have it; the great commision circa 2021.
I wonder if The Old Man is still willing to save Sodom for the sake of only ten.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Ribicon 9/12/2021 2:11:40 PM (No. 912136)
Variant on a joke, probably seen here: Never play chess with a member of the Evangelical Lutheran clergy; they can't tell a Bishop from a Queen.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
chance_232 9/12/2021 2:19:47 PM (No. 912141)
Thats the ELCA for you. Not to be confused with the LCMS or the CELC. The three groups don't see eye to eye.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
seamusm 9/12/2021 2:25:39 PM (No. 912144)
Evangelical? For perverted, immoral, sin most certainly but not for God.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
starboard 9/12/2021 2:30:46 PM (No. 912151)
Wrong. Oops, just realized this is in San Francisco.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 9/12/2021 2:36:44 PM (No. 912154)
Tell all apostate bishops this for me; ''Just keep your right hand of fellowship on your side of the fence and I'll do the same.''
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Pegmo 9/12/2021 2:46:28 PM (No. 912162)
open rebellion against Jesus Christ.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
lynngirl122 9/12/2021 2:51:53 PM (No. 912169)
Oy vay.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
VirtuDawg 9/12/2021 3:22:32 PM (No. 912192)
I recall an article in Vanity Fair form the early 1980s about ELCA entitled “Trendier Than Thou.”
I suppose that this should be updated to “Woker Than Thou.”
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Oh brother, or sister, or brother-sister. Wonder how the Lutherns in the pews feel about this?
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
MrDeplorable 9/12/2021 3:50:58 PM (No. 912217)
The Bishop's Limerick
Our Megan's the new love machine
The likes of which we've never seen
Concave and convex
They can fit either sex
And service theirself in between
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
anniebc 9/12/2021 3:52:30 PM (No. 912218)
I'm surprised San Francisco still exists. It's the home of America's high priestess bug-eyed piglosi. OMG.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Ketchuplover 9/12/2021 3:56:57 PM (No. 912223)
The article is wrong in stating that the ELCA is one of the largest Christian denominations in the U.S. It is NOT Christian, and anyone who continues to be a member of that apostate church is either ignorant of the Bible, or a worshiper of self ("Look how tolerant and loving I am! Who am I to condemn?"). I'm very thankful that the LCMS (Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod) saw the direction these liberals were going, and broke off relations with them decades ago. Incidentally, the ELCA is one of the major "churches" responsible in Minnesota for bringing the Somalis over. They received mega-bucks from the U.S. Govt for their acts of "charity."
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 9/12/2021 4:11:31 PM (No. 912240)
Transgender from what to what? If he snipped off his wenie he is still a man but with no wenie.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
ussjimmycarter 9/12/2021 4:13:59 PM (No. 912244)
We have moved to the MO. Lutheran Church! This will never be tolerated in our new synod! We actually read scripture! And we believe all of it is God’s inspired Word!
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Daisymay 9/12/2021 4:16:24 PM (No. 912248)
Good to know Missouri Synod hasn't gone off the Deep end too. I've been a Lutheran all my life, went to Lutheran grade school and always attended Missouri Synod churches. I can't even imagine something like that happening in our churches.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Heil Liberals 9/12/2021 4:19:05 PM (No. 912253)
So, it’s no longer a church, but an activist social club.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
SALady 9/12/2021 5:13:43 PM (No. 912288)
I live in a very lie-beral city, Austin, TX. Recently there was some actual media coverage of Christianity in this area.
Some of the most strict evangelical fundamentalist churches (like Baptist and Church of Chrits), as well as the Catholic Churches, have been showing steady growth over the last decade.
However, all the super lie-beral "churches of what's happening now" are losing membership, with some already shut down, and others suffering through massively decreasing membership and attendance. I was shocked our lie-beral local media actually reported that truth on this -- though, of course, the reporter emphasized the decreasing numbers in the lie-beral churches instead of the growth in the far more conservative denominations.
I have noticed that, since our Baptist Church has gone back to full services, we have shown a sizeable increase in membership (many from those lie-beral churches). I have some good friends in the pro-life movement that are Catholic, and they are having to build a new sanctuary for their parish due the the number of new members they have added over the last decade -- especially over the last few months as people have been hungry for faith and fellowship after the Covid lockdowns.
I have faith in God and in churches that try to stay true to God. Sadly, more and more faux churches, like the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, are quickly going the other way!!!
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
PostAway 9/12/2021 5:44:42 PM (No. 912302)
“And Jesus said unto them: Do you love the fish of the sea? Do you love the worms of the earth or the bat in its cave or the birds of the air? Then you are to become like the fish, the worm, the bat or the bird. I have loved you and I have loved them because they are my father’s creation. Man, do you love woman? Then become one and I shall love you and what you love. Woman, do you love man? Then become one and I will love you and whatever you love. For it is written: you are to walk the earth in your own way neither with regard for your bodily creation nor for the glory of the Creator but to experience life as an array of worldly things and I will take pleasure in your journey and will be with you as you discover whatever takes your fancy at any moment. Lo, though it is messy the Son of God is a fun-loving teacher with no knowledge greater than yours.” The Gospel According to Meghan
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Rubinski 9/12/2021 6:01:43 PM (No. 912311)
Don’t get ELCA mixed up with other Lutherans, such as WELS—Wisconsin Synod. WELS is very conservative.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 9/12/2021 6:14:01 PM (No. 912325)
God will not be mocked.
It won't be fun being in that thing's slippers.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
padiva 9/12/2021 7:22:06 PM (No. 912403)
Hat tip to #8
Matthew 24:24 ' For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect.'
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
AltaD 9/12/2021 7:24:20 PM (No. 912406)
FTA: Rohrer, who uses the pronoun “they,"
Of course it does.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
MickTurn 9/12/2021 8:11:32 PM (No. 912475)
Hmmm, Tomatoes injected with rainbow colored dyes...that way when they go splat you can't see them...
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
XCenturion 9/13/2021 1:02:40 AM (No. 912661)
San Francisco? Who would have guessed. Where does a person go for spiritual guidance now? A church that installs a freak as a bishop, or a church that covers for pedophile priests?
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