"Your bargaining posture is highly dubious"

So for those of you who haven't been keeping up, about a week and a half ago, the Evangelical Lutheran Churches of America took a vote on whether or not to allow gay clergy to participate in monogamous relationships. Much to the chagrin of the reasonable people of the world, they voted down that resolution. However, the outgoing bishop of the Metropolitan Chicago Synod, Paul Landahl, is smarter than your average bigot, and got the assembly to pass a measure which states that gay clergy should not be punished for being actively and openly gay.

And now Chuck Colson, a Watergate conspirator (and convicted felon) who isn't even a Lutheran at all, has seen fit to morally condemn the ELCA.













I am laughing.