A Christian Century report on the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's 2009 Churchwide Assembly, at which delegates voted 559 to 451 on 21 August 2009 in Minneapolis to open ordained ministry to gay and lesbian clergy in publicly accountable, lifelong, monogamous relationships, replacing a policy that had required celibacy.
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An independent mainline Protestant magazine of record, not the ELCA's own voice, reporting the Churchwide Assembly's own recorded vote. Corroborated against CNN's and Wikipedia's contemporaneous accounts of the same 21 August 2009 vote (559 to 451) before citing. NotesReports the 2009 ELCA Churchwide Assembly's 21 August 2009 vote, 559 to 451, opening ordained ministry to clergy in publicly accountable, lifelong, monogamous same-gender relationships, ending a policy that required celibacy of gay and lesbian clergy.
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AuthorThe Christian Century
PublisherThe Christian Century
Publication Year2009
URLhttps://www.christiancentury.org/article/2009-09/vote-gay-clergy
Source Typejournalism
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