Robert Benne, professor emeritus at Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia, and the Director of the Center for Religion and Society, weighs in on the ELCA’s Sexuality Social Statement and Recommendations. Benne suggests that
the statement avoids making normative judgments about homosexual conduct by neglecting the testimony of the Bible and the Christian moral tradition on that issue. In doing so it departs from the moral consensus that the church has held for millennia…
You can read Benne’s entire March 4 Lutheran Forum article here.
