Gay (Lutheran) priest installed in Calif. church

[deadparrot]

SAN FRANCISCO, March 27 (UPI) -- An openly gay Lutheran priest has been installed as pastor of a San Francisco church expelled from the national body for ordaining gays.

The move could get both the Rev. Robert Goldstein and St. Francis Lutheran Church in trouble with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. But Goldstein believes eventually the national church will follow St. Francis' lead, KPIX-TV said.

"Serving this congregation is a way of bearing witness to the larger church that one of your pastors is here, serving this congregation with joy and faith and confidence," Goldstein said.

Goldstein, a native of Australia, said he lost his parish in New Jersey when he came out as a homosexual in 1987. But the diocese of Chicago eventually gave him a home and he served several churches there.

http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060327-075535-9081r

[bliss_eternal]

1. Now if we could get ALL churches

to allow gays and lesbians into leadership positions... :)

I'd also like to see the Catholic church allow women to be priests, let the priests marry and make the priests that molested children face their crimes,be punished for them and be removed from their positions as priests permanenty, not just moved to a new church.

But I guess when all this happens the sky will bleed, pigs will fly, and cheney and co. will actually do time for their crimes. :eyes: (sigh)