From the Washington Post-
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, one of the largest Christian denominations in the country, will decide this week whether to allow gay people in relationships to serve as clergy.
Currently, sexually active gay people are not permitted to serve in the clergy, but celibate gay people are. By Friday, church delegates meeting in Minneapolis are expected to vote on a proposal that would permit congregations to let gay men and lesbians in committed, monogamous relationships serve as clergy.
The Evangelical Lutheran Church is the latest major denomination to wrestle with the question of gay clergy. The issue has divided the Episcopal Church, which last month voted to make gay people eligible for any ordained ministry, further threatening to split the worldwide Anglican Communion, of which it is a branch. And earlier this year, the Presbyterian Church (USA) voted against accepting openly gay pastors, although the margin narrowed compared with a 2001 vote.
The issue has also roiled the United Methodists, which, after an emotional debate last year, voted to retain its policy of prohibiting "self-avowed, practicing homosexuals" from being ordained as clergy.
More here-
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/17/AR2009081703016.html
The LA Times is here-
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-lutherans-gays18-2009aug18,0,5525824.story
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