Wednesday, February 03, 2010

Church stays with ELCA; pastor quits

By Keith Uhlig
Wausau Daily Herald
February 3, 2010

Buffeted by turbulence surrounding the issue of gay clergy, members of First English Lutheran Church in Wausau have voted to stay affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

But the church's pastor, the Rev. Scott Mann, will resign, effective Friday. Mann said he disagreed with the ELCA's decision last year to allow people in lifelong, monogamous, same-gender relationships to serve as pastors and other leaders. The resolutions, passed at the 2009 National Churchwide Assembly, also allowed individual congregations to make their own choices on the matter.

Mann said he's forming a new Lutheran congregation in the area with others who reject the ELCA decision.

"At the moment, we've been meeting at the Labor Temple on Sunday afternoon," he said. the rest

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