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Freddie

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7. The "One Church Plan"

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Original post)

Mon Feb 4, 2019, 01:37 PM

Feb 2019

Wherein each individual congregation can decide issues of gay clergy and same-sex marriage ceremonies in the church - is basically what the ELCA decided back in 2009. Some congratulations left the ELCA over it. But essentially the issue is decided and there was less anguish over it than most people thought. When same-sex marriage became legal in Pennsylvania (a little while before nationally) the council at my church voted unanimously to allow it.

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Yes, it goes all the way back, doesn't it? MineralMan Feb 2019 #3

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