ELCA Sexuality Report: Another Mushy Mainline Compromise
 http://www.ecumenicalinsanity.net/archives/00000147.htm
  
 Lutheran Decision Splits on Gay Clergy
 http://www.washtimes.com/national/20050114-121259-8502r.htm
 
  Here is their lame excuse at http://www.elca.org/faithfuljourney/tfreport_faq.html as to "Why doesn't the task force report and  recommendations simply state that homosexual sexual conduct is a sin?  "There are those who clearly think all homosexual conduct is sinful and that has been the traditional teaching. Some take the opposite view that it is not sinful if it occurs within a loving and faithful covenant of union. Still others, while seeing homosexual unions as less than optimum, may see prayerful support for them in the church as the healthiest choice and a way to include and embrace gay and lesbian people and their families. Once again, the task force report does not recommend that we resolve these differences by a vote at the 2005 Churchwide Assembly."
 
  Report With Recommendations of the task force for the ELCA Studies on Sexuality
 http://www.elca.org/faithfuljourney/tfreport.html
 
  Scroll down the page to read Lutheran Task Force: Keep Status Quo On Gays at
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2005/102/41.0.html
 
  Panel Asks Lutheran Body To Tolerate Gays
 http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=533&ncid=533&e=13&u=/ap/20050113/ap_on_re_us/lutherans_gays