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Tom Crann

Lutheran decision on gay clergy still pending

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Bishop Mark Hanson
Presiding Bishop Mark Hanson speaks at a news conference Monday Aug. 17, 2009 during the Evangelical Lutheran in America (ELCA) convention at the Minneapolis Convention Center. More than 1,000 members of the ELCA will vote this week on whether to lift a ban on gay and lesbian clergy to remain celibate while leading churches.
Dawn Villella/ Associated Press

Leaders of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America will decide this week, whether member churches should be allowed to hire ministers in committed same-sex relationships as clergy.

And, the Assembly of the nation's largest Lutheran denomination voted yesterday on a related matter.

Delegates approved the ELCA's social statement on human sexuality, which says that the church is open enough to allow different perspectives on the potentially polarizing issue.

To talk about the discussion going on in Minneapolis this week Tom Crann talked to John Brooks. He works for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, as the news director for the ELCA's communication services.

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Bishop Mark Hanson
Presiding Bishop Mark Hanson speaks at a news conference Monday Aug. 17, 2009 during the Evangelical Lutheran in America (ELCA) convention at the Minneapolis Convention Center. More than 1,000 members of the ELCA will vote this week on whether to lift a ban on gay and lesbian clergy to remain celibate while leading churches.
Dawn Villella/ Associated Press