Lesbian pathbreaker to be ordained in S.F.
Friday, June 15, 2007

A Lutheran congregation in San Francisco will ordain an openly gay partnered minister Saturday as part of a drive to equalize LGBTs within the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

Dawn Roginski's ordination at St. Francis Lutheran Church directly challenges the denomination's policy of requiring lifelong celibacy of its gay and lesbian clergy while imposing no such restrictions on its heterosexuals.

The ceremony will mark the third such challenge to the policy in eight months.

The ceremonies, which run outside the usual guidelines of Lutheran ordinations to certify the credentials of openly identified sexual minorities, are supported by the Lutheran Lesbian and Gay Ministries and the Extraordinary Candidacy Project. the rest