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Metaphorically Speaking, Of Course
Abstract: Does your church's pulpit have a back door?
ELCA assembly slips practicing gays in back door to pulpit is the breathless title of the August 11 news release from Word Alone. Once past the titillating title, you'll have to read to the third paragraph of the release to find out what the Assembly actually did: ...voted 538 to 431 to urge bishops, synods and the presiding bishop to refrain from disciplining pastors or lay ministers in committed same-sex relationships.
Quoted in the news release, Pastor Paull Spring offers the overheated interpretation that some bishops will use the resolution "as an excuse to ordain people in same-sex relationships".
See Wikipedia for a reasonably complete list of the connotations of "back door."
