OPINION: Pastor Walt Kallestad-"No Gay Clergy in My Mega-Church"

By Christian News Wire , Nation's Religious Press Leader - July 01, 2009

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Walt Kallestad, senior pastor of Community Church of Joy, Glendale, AZ, told Church Executive that the movement within his ELCA denomination to allow gay ordained clergy will not be accepted by his congregation or school. The ELCA churchwide meetings in Minneapolis next month will vote on allowing congregations to receive "life-long, monogamous, same-gender relationships" among ordained clergy. On March 4 Kallestad wrote his congregation "our firm opposition to this policy" in the belief that ... Read the Full Article
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What else can we blame on gays
  • tek
    one lost

    sock.

    mosquitos

    the fact that toilets swirl flush in the opposite direction south of the equator.

    France

    - tek July 2, 2009 1:09PM

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    • quantummechanik
      Gays are responsible for

      Dinosaurs going extinct

      The earth not being filled with cool tunnels so I could get to wherever I wanted to via train

      Steven Seagal trying to make a movie about Genghis Khan.

      - quantummechanikUS July 2, 2009 2:59PM

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