The Task Force for ELCA Studies on Sexuality released its
Report
and Recommendations on sexuality issues to come before
the church's biennial assembly later this year. An ELCA press
release, Task
Force Issues Recommendations On Homosexuality (January
13, 2005), provides an overview of the Task Force's recommendations.
The following articles and statements provide some reactions
to the ELCA Task Force Recommendations:
A Statement of Pastoral
and Theological Concern issued by some of the ELCA's most
distinguished theologians. (March 1, 2005)
Lutheran
decision splits on gay clergy in The Washington
Times (January 14, 2005).
Invited
responses and more
responses (from those responding to online request) reported
in the March 2005 issue of The Lutheran, the ELCA's
magazine.
Hesse,
dissenting member of sexuality task force speaks out posted
at the Word Alone web site (February 17, 2005)
Abandoning
Scripture and confessions posted at the Word Alone
web site (January 27, 2005)
The
ELCA sexuality task force's 'concern for conscience'
posted at the Word Alone web site (January 28, 2005).
Recommendation
3: The irreversible phase-in posted at the Word Alone
web site (January 21, 2005).
Sex
and 'Church' by Dennis Bielfeldt, professor of Philosophy
and Religion at South Dakota State University, in Journal
of Lutheran Ethics, Vol. 5, Issue 1, January 2005
Lutheran
Sexuality Task Force Abdicates Responsibility by Alan
Wisdom, Vice President of the Institute on Religion and Democracy
and a member of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). (January
18, 2005)
Critique
of the Report and Recommendations from the Task Force for
ELCA Studies on Sexuality by Roy A. Harrisville, III,
Executive Director, Solid Rock Lutherans.
