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      <title>Comments On: Gay Debate Liveblog Part II
    
      by Greg Hambrick</title>
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      <![CDATA[Greg,
    I wasn't sure if you had seen this story just yet.  
    
    When the ELCA originally said "No homosexual Lutheran clergy in a sexual relationship" did that mean any pastor in any close relationship?
    
    Sat Aug 11, 2:00 PM ET
     
    CHICAGO (Reuters) - Homosexual Lutheran clergy who are in sexual relationships will be able to serve as pastors, the largest U.S. Lutheran body said on Saturday. 
     
    The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) passed a resolution at its annual assembly urging bishops to refrain from disciplining pastors who are in "faithful committed same-gender relationships."
    
    The resolution passed by a vote of 538-431.
    
    "The Church ... has just said 'Do not do punishments'," said Phil Soucy, spokesman for Lutherans Concerned, a gay-lesbian rights group within the church. "That is huge."
    
    The ELCA, which has 4.8 million members, had previously allowed gays to serve as pastors so long as they abstained from sexual relations.
    
    The conference also instructed a committee that is developing a social statement on sexuality to further investigate the issue. The committee is scheduled to release its report in 2009.
    
    Since the ELCA was founded in 1988, the group has ordered three pastors in gay relationships to be removed from their ministries. The most recent case was decided in July when the ELCA's committee on appeals voted to remove an openly gay pastor from St. John's Lutheran Church in Atlanta.
    
    The gay clergy issue has become a flashpoint in other faiths, including the Anglican Church.
        
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    <pubDate>Sat, 11 Aug 2007 17:16:00 -0400</pubDate> 
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    <author><![CDATA[Uncle Zoloft]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Mike Gravel hands down.
    
    > &ldquo;'I good politician can tell you to go to hell, and make you look forward to the trip.' Zing."
    
    &bull; BAM, SNAP, SLAP! The Truth, from some grumpy, pissed off, curmudgeon. I love this guy.
    
    "Wants you to be able to go to a liquor store to get marijuana. And people say Hillary is the GOP dream candidate&hellip;"
    
    &bull; Again: BAM, SNAP, SLAP! What did he just say!?!?!?!!!! ...the only point he missed on this topic was the tax revenue that would be brought in and that Big Pharma would get their cut from the coke prescriptions alone.
    
    "Closing: 'You&rsquo;ve got to assert your rights. No one is going to give you anything from on high.'"
    
    &bull; No Sh!t. He also mentioned that people need to come out. So please - everyone who did not come out before the 2006 elections - DO SO NOW! There is no way to get a seat at the table if your hiding in the closet ~ that's so last century.
    
    &bull; The Dems being a political operation about cash flow and the power of numbers will end up with an Obama/Clinton Clinton/Obama ticket. My I hope is that they appoint Gravel & Kucinich as cabinet members.
        
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    <pubDate>Fri, 10 Aug 2007 06:56:23 -0400</pubDate> 
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      <![CDATA[i don't understand your crazy "science." (Caveman Lawyer, or Bill Richardson?)
        
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    <pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 21:33:13 -0400</pubDate> 
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