Decline and fall

A note on the fraying of the American Lutherans.

Every ELCA board, church assembly, and what-not beyond the congregation must be composed of ten percent “people of color or whose primary language is other than English,” fifty percent female, fifty percent male, sixty percent laity, and forty percent clergy (the same fifty-fifty male/female ratio works for clergy representation too).

So take a committee of, oh, ten people. Four are clergy and two of them are female. It would help in the formulation if one of the clergy females was a black woman who was raised speaking a language other than English, but you can’t have everything.

Perhaps the adoption of secular progressivism's obsessions with race and gender and ethnicity, etc. was not the cause, but it is a symptom of losing your center of gravity, losing your ground in real, as opposed to "social justice" theology and wanting to please Caesar, even when Caesar is a Democrat.