Ordaining of Homosexuals

If someone tried to force a fundamentalist minister on a homosexual congregation, Luedtke would scream to high heaven. Yet she feels she has the right to try to force on other congregations ministers just as unwanted and just as unsuitable to them.

If someone said homosexuals--and others--had no right to their own interpretation of the Bible, she would also be just as outraged. Yet she objects when Lutherans make their choice to accept the Bible just as written, in regard to classifying homosexuality as a serious wrong, and therefore sinful. Besides their freedom of choice, there is, in fact, strong reason for accepting this teaching, since former homosexuals have stated that, based on that outlook they have been able to change “through Christ” (“The Gospel and the Gay,” by K.O. Gangel).

Lutherans, then--as well as other Christians--have every right to their own beliefs--and, therefore, the right to refuse as leaders, those who do not share their beliefs. This fundamental right to choice of leader is what both Protestantism and democracy are all about. So-called “liberalism,” it would seem, can also attempt dictatorship.

N.E. DE LARA

Sherman Oaks