ORLANDO, Fla. — On Aug. 12, the nation’s largest Lutheran Church rejected a move to allow actively gay clergy and upheld a 1993 policy that frowns on blessing same-sex unions. A proposal to allow clergy in “lifelong, committed and faithful same-sex relationships” to serve in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America was rejected 503–490 by voting delegates at the church’s…
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