ELCA Votes to Allow Gay Clergy in Committed Relationships
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, with 4.7 million members, voted to allow gays and lesbians in committed relationships to serve as clergy, marking a potential shift in mainline Protestant stance on sexuality and the Bible. Observers say the church now faces whether to stay united or split over moral and scriptural debates. The policy had previously required celibacy for LGBT clergy.
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Elmer Kelton dies at 83 a Western novelist
Noted West Texas author Elmer Kelton died Saturday at age 83 in San Angelo. He wrote more than 40 novels, earned multiple Spur and Western Heritage Awards, and his Good Old Boys was made into a 1995 TNT TV movie starring Tommy Lee Jones. Funeral services are pending at Johnson's Funeral Home.
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