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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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The strange conflation

That's because you

can't have a homosexual issue without turning it into something else. Remember, all these things are gay's fault:

Porn
Hurricanes, floods, earthquakes
Beastiality
The economy
Tuesdays
White dwarfs, sun spots, and supernovas.
The WAR on Christ, or christians, or their buildings or something like that.
And of course, the complete and total moral decline of the entire universe which will be the end all be all of all civilizations known throughout the infinite universe, causing a gigantic blackhole to swallow all of life.

That, or the churches are having a harder time getting people to hate on someone because of their sexual identity and have to toss extras into the basket to make it savory.

- tek July 2, 2009 6:48AM

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- What else can we blame on gays
  
  This is a fun game.
  
  Global warming
  That weird itchy part of my arm that's always covered by my sleeve
  The resurrection of Megatron, leader of the Decepticons.
  
  Your turn.
  
  - quantummechanik July 2, 2009 10:22AM
  
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  - 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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    - 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.
      
      - quantummechanik July 2, 2009 2:59PM
      
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  - Epic win
    
    "The resurrection of Megatron, leader of the Decepticons."
    
    Sir, I salute you!
    
    - MrBook July 18, 2009 11:22AM
    
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    - Hey
      
      Decepticons are a serious threat to America.
      
      - quantummechanik July 20, 2009 1:23PM
      
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- whats you smoken
  
  Tell me
  
  - countryboy July 18, 2009 5:29PM
  
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