(The Washington Times) - Conservative members of America's largest Lutheran denomination announced that they are splitting from the Chicago-based Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, making it the second mainline Protestant church to undergo a major schism over the issue of homosexuality and related matters of biblical authority.
The U.S. Episcopal Church has experienced a similar split, with whole dioceses attempting to leave, new Anglican churches formed and a series of property fights in the years since the 2003 consecration of Bishop V. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire.
On Wednesday, an 11-member steering committee of Lutheran CORE (Coalition for Renewal), meeting in New Brighton, Minn., said it cannot remain inside the 4.7-million-member ELCA after the denomination agreed at its August churchwide assembly in Minneapolis to ordain partnered gay clergy....
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THE CATHOLIC KNIGHT: Liberalism is a cancer that infects all Christian institutions (even the Catholicism and Orthodoxy), but the Protestants appear to have no immunity to it whatsoever. Their only defense is amputation. They don't cut off the infected limb, but rather cut themselves away from the entire infected body, to start over from scratch with a new denomination. Schism is their most effective defense, but with each schism their numbers decrease, and in time it stands to reason that Protestantism itself will splinter into oblivion.
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