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

The strange conflation

with porn and gay clergymen confuses me.

- quantummechanik July 1, 2009 5:45PM

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- 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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- And they should!
  
  If they are married and a husband of one wife.Well that wont happen!Then they could have one think going for them.
  
  - countryboy July 18, 2009 7:57AM
  
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