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Rev. Dr. Cindi Love: The Lutheran Church Embraces the LGBTQ Community!

April 26, 2010 by soulforce

Our Executive Director, Rev. Dr. Cindi Love wrote a piece for The Huffington Post titled "The Lutheran Church Embraces the LGBTQ Community!" George Bernard Shaw once said, "Certainly all great truths begin as blasphemies." On April 11, 2010, those who identify as people of faith and as "non-heterosexual" were given particular cause to celebrate Shaw’s […]

Filed Under: Lutheran Church Tagged With: Christian Supremacy, Cindi Love, ELCA, Gay Christian, Homophobia, huffington post, LGBT activism, LGBT history, lgbtq, LGBTQI, Lutheran, marriage equality, ordination equality, Queer activism, Religion-based violence, same-sex marriage, soulforce

Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) votes to recognize same-gender couples

August 21, 2009 by soulforce

Allows those gay and lesbian people in relationships to serve as church leaders! Today the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) passed a resolution stating that it will commit itself to find a way to allow congregations that choose to do so to recognize, support and hold publicly accountable, lifelong, monogamous, same-gender relationships.  Additionally, the […]

Filed Under: Lutheran Church Tagged With: Christian Supremacy, ELCA, evangelical lutheran church of america, Gay Christian, goodsoil, Homophobia, LGBT activism, LGBT history, lgbtq, LGBTQI, lutheran church, Lutherans concerned, mark hanson, ordination equality, Queer activism, Religion-based violence, same-gender couples, soulforce

Lutheran Church Keeps its Promise to Gays and Lesbians to Issue Final Report on Study on Homosexuality in 2005 – Will Also Continue Relationship with Episcopal Church

August 16, 2003 by soulforce

Soulforce and the Lutheran Alliance for Full Participation conducted vigils and leafleting during the ELCA Churchwide Assembly to help educate voting members Press Release: August 16, 2003For Immediate ReleaseContact: Laura Montgomery RuttCell 717-278-0592 email:Laura@soulforce.org (Milwaukee, WI) – On the final afternoon session of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) Churchwide Assembly, voting members rejected […]

Filed Under: Church Work, ELCA, Lutheran Church, News

Soulforce Report August 15, 2003 from ELCA Churchwide Assembly in Milwaukee

August 15, 2003 by soulforce

Soulforce Greetings – Friday, August 15, 2003 from the ELCA Churchwide Assembly in Milwaukee! These past two days have been exciting, and at times challenging. For the most part, we have been welcomed and embraced, both literally and figuratively! No matter how long we vigil, it is still amazing to see hundreds of Lutherans walking […]

Filed Under: Church Work, ELCA, Event Reporting, Lutheran Church

Soulforce Report August 13, 2003 from ELCA Churchwide Assembly in Milwaukee

August 15, 2003 by soulforce

Greetings from the ELCA Churchwide Assembly in Milwaukee! August 13, 2003 The past three days have been busy and empowering. The Lutheran Alliance for Full Participation develops daily flyers that we hand out each morning. Hundreds of Lutherans stop and thank us for our presence, look at our blown-up photos of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and […]

Filed Under: Church Work, ELCA, Event Reporting, Lutheran Church

Nonviolence Direct Actions Take Place this Week in Milwaukee to Support Gay and Lesbian Lutherans

August 11, 2003 by soulforce

Soulforce and Lutheran Alliance for Full Participation to conduct Vigils, Leafleting, and Nonviolence Trainings during the ELCA Churchwide Assembly, August 11-17 in Milwaukee ***************************************************Press Release: August 11, 2003For Immediate ReleaseContact: Laura Montgomery RuttCell 717-278-0592 email:Laura@soulforce.org**************************************************** (Lynchburg, VA) – Soulforce is in Milwaukee this week at the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) Churchwide Assembly (August […]

Filed Under: Church Work, ELCA, Lutheran Church, Press

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