There has been a lot of interesting commentary regarding the ELCA convention in Orlando. Rev. Paul McCain reports that the ELCA is sanctioning (keep it legal and rare, does that sound familiar?) gay weddings, but they didn’t go so far as to allow the ordination of gay pastors.

The gay wedding issue required a simple majority, which it passed 670-323, while the gay ordination issue required a 2/3rd majority. Yet that issue also would have failed in simple majority, 490 for and 503 against.

Does it not seem reasonable that 180 people need to be asked why it was acceptable for pastors to bless gay weddings while it was unacceptable for pastors to participate in the same acts? Was there an attack of conscience, where, gee, their servants of the Word should follow what the Word says, even if the laity pick and choose which of God’s laws to follow and have pastors endorse the participants’ denial of scripture?