August 30, 2010 | Sex & Society

Conservative Lutherans break from Church

Last year, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America voted to allow non-celibate gay clergy. This week, a conservative faction in the same Church has pulled away and started its own denomination.

The new North American Lutheran Church includes 18 congregations in 12 states.

"Some of these denominations have had these divisions since the 1980s, and the divisions become most clear around these kinds of social issues,"  explained Wendy Cadge, an associate professor of sociology at Brandeis University.

Breakaway leader, Rev. Paull Spring believes that by 2011 more than 200 churches will join the North American Lutheran Church. He hopes to become the new denomination's first bishop.

Evangelical Lutheran Church Bishop David Zellmer fears that the breakaway congregations have lost sight of what really matters in terms of spirituality, and have become too focused on a single issue.

Maybe someone should teach the NALC about a man named Jesus.

Lutherans opposed to gay clergy form new U.S. denomination [USA Today]

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