From USA Today-
Sex isn't everything at the Evangelical Lutheran Church's governing meeting this week. The Bible is.
They'll talk about a malaria initiative, evangelization, world hunger, world peace and more at the Minneapolis meeting. But the unquestionable hot topic will be the looming vote on ministry policies, currently scheduled for Friday. It will decide whether openly gay ministers may be permitted in ministry or, as current rules say, they must be celibate to serve.
What does Scripture say on this? And what does Scripture mean on this?
Those are not the same question. No matter how the ELCA votes Wednesday on a social statement on sexuality or Friday on ministry rules, it's always about the Bible. The Lutherans, after all, take their name from the man who rallied the Reformation under the cry of Solo Scriptura (the Bible alone) in his break from the Catholic Church.
Washington Post reporter Jacqueline Salmon's coverage today has a pointed quote on this from Phil Soucy of Lutherans Concerned, which pushes for gay rights in the Church:
... The very idea that questioning someone else's interpretation of Scripture constitutes an assault on the authority of Scripture is nonsense.
Is it?
More here-
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/religion/post/2009/08/68497172/1
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