A Lutheran minister. (Bad News).A Lutheran minister has been suspended for joining Catholic, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, and Sikh representatives at a post-9/11 prayer service at Yankee Stadium • • [ . The Rev. David Benke David Benke is a Lutheran pastor and the current president of the Atlantic District of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod. Education and Career Benke was born on May 5, 1946 in Milwaukee, WI as the first child of Raymond and Dorothy Benke. was also ordered to apologize to the 2.6 million members of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. "To participate with pagans in an interfaith service and, additionally, to give the impression that there might be more than one God, is an extremely serious offense," wrote Rev. Wallace Schulz, the church's second vice president, who rendered the decision. The denomination's president supports Benke. Unlike the larger Evangelical Lutheran Church in America The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) is a mainline Protestant denomination headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. Formed in 1988 by the merging of three churches and currently having about 4. (ELCA ELCA Evangelical Lutheran Church in America ELCA European Landscape Contractors Association ELCA Excimer Laser Coronary Angioplasty ELCA English Language Communicational Association (Japan) ELCA Eagle's Landing Christian Academy ), the Missouri Synod does not allow its clergy to lead prayer services with other religions. Benke is appealing, saying the event was more patriotic than religious. |
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