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Christianity Today: New recommendations for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) would allow congregations to bless homosexual unions and to have noncelibate homosexual ministers. Though the January 13 recommendation acknowledged that the official teaching of the ELCA prohibits homosexual ordinations and marriage, the task force said the church may choose to refrain from disciplining members for violating these prohibitions.

U.S. theologians who are members of the ELCA urged the denomination to reject the recommendations because they threaten the 4.9-million-member church's unity, stability, and "ability to proclaim the truth of the gospel."

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