Lutheran Church Allows Gay Ministers With Partners to Serve

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) has voted in favor of eliminating its 20-year-old ban against ministers in gay relationships on Friday. The vote by 1,045 ELCA representatives meeting this week in Minneapolis came late in the day and wasn't as close as expected. With a 559 to 451 vote church liberals did away with asking gay and lesbian pastors to remain celibate. "Today I am proud to be a Lutheran," Emily Eastwood, executive director of Lutherans Concerned/North America, said in a statement released by Goodsoil, a coalition of gay-inclusive Lutheran groups. Full Story from Chicago Pride

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