[Apologetics] Lutheran Panel Votes to Expel Gay Minister

[Art Kelly]

Lutheran Panel Votes to Expel Gay Minister

By Alan Cooperman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, February 9, 2007; Page A05

A disciplinary committee of the Evangelical Lutheran
Church in America ruled yesterday that a gay pastor in
Atlanta must give up his pulpit, saying it was
reluctantly enforcing a "bad policy."

Following a five-day church trial last month, seven of
the committee's 12 members voted to remove the Rev.
Bradley E. Schmeling, 44, from the clergy as of Aug.
15.

The full article is at
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/08/AR2007020802047.html



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