Friday, September 10, 2010

RESPONSE TO THE PROPOSED ELCIC SOCIAL STATEMENT ON HUMAN SEXUALITY

By Keith R. Odegard

The Proposed Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (“ELCIC”) Social Statement on Human Sexuality (“the Statement”) is a significant improvement over the radical theology presented in the ELCIC Study of Human Sexuality (“the Study”). Many of the objections raised by Solid Ground Ministry/Canada in its 41 page submission to the Human Sexuality Task Force (“the Task Force”) (www.solid-ground.ca) have been addressed and corrected in the First Draft of the Statement. Members of the Task Force should be commended for correcting erroneous assumptions and false analyses in their deliberations in the preparation of the ELCIC human sexuality guiding document. A brief summary of some of the significant corrections are as follows:

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