A controversial decision about homosexual clergy by the country’s largest Lutheran denomination had some of the church’s conservatives knocking on the door of the Kirkwood-based Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod last week.
Missouri Synod officials fielded dozens of calls and e-mails from pastors and lay members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America after its biennial meeting in Minneapolis, when delegates voted 559-451 to allow gay clergy in committed relationships to serve as pastors.