{"id":755,"date":"2010-04-08T15:54:57","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T22:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/?p=755"},"modified":"2010-04-08T15:54:57","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T22:54:57","slug":"african-lutherans-don%e2%80%99t-buy-%e2%80%9cbound-conscience%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/?p=755","title":{"rendered":"African Lutherans don\u2019t buy \u201cbound conscience\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Member churches of the LWF in Africa <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elca.org\/Who-We-Are\/Our-Three-Expressions\/Churchwide-Organization\/Communication-Services\/News\/Releases.aspx?a=4494\" target=\"_blank\">reject<\/a> the ELCA\u2019s approval of same-sex marriage and families. Meeting in March 24-28 in Abuja, Nigeria, African Lutherans affirmed marriage as the union of one man and one woman as normative (rejecting polygamy and same-sex unions) and mom-dad families as best for children.<\/p>\n<p>The Rev. Alex G. Malasusa, Presiding Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania (over 6,300,000 members), also urged his fellow Lutherans to be independent of left-wing Western churches: \u201cWe should be independent so that they don\u2019t use their money and wealth to threaten us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Member churches of the LWF in Africa reject the ELCA\u2019s approval of same-sex marriage and families. Meeting in March 24-28 in Abuja, Nigeria, African Lutherans affirmed marriage as the union of one man and one woman as normative (rejecting polygamy and same-sex unions) and mom-dad families as best for children. The Rev. Alex G. Malasusa, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=755"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":757,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755\/revisions\/757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}