If the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America votes to allow individual congregations to perform same-sex unions and to hire gay and lesbian pastors, it's hard to tell what will happen in the Denver-based Rocky Mountain Synod. The synod's leader, Bishop Allan Bjornberg, sounds like he might be okay with it. He says:
"We have liberals and conservatives and a great middle ground. I think the great middle has become very comfortable with gay and lesbian people in their congregations. I don't know how comfortable the middle is with rostering gay and lesbian people in committed same-sex relationships as their pastors. But I know the great middle is exhausted by the conversation."
I'm exhausted by the conversation, too, and still wondering why anyone would be a member of a church that finds them disgusting and immoral. Not talking about the Lutherans necessarily but any church or religion. But that's just me.
