Lutheran church on gay marriage

Religious Groups’ Official Positions on Same-Sex Marriage

Stances of Faiths on LGBTQ+ Issues: Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

However, church policy, like that for same-sex marriage, gives individual congregations autonomy in calling ministers to serve. Women have been ordained in the church since its founding in and were ordained in the Lutheran churches that formed the ELCA beginning in By clicking "GO" below, you will be directed to a website operated by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, an independent c 3 entity.

And in those dioceses where blessing same-sex relationships is permissible, no Episcopal priest will be required to perform the blessing ceremony. At the same assembly, the church also adopted a social statement on human sexuality that supports a wide variety of families, including those headed by same-gender couples.