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The Reconciling in Christ program does not seek special treatment for the LGBTQ community. However, we live in a time when the voices of fear are all that is heard. Lutherans Concerned North America in fact continues to learn of Lutheran churches that shun LGBTQ people. Sometimes their parents and family are even vilified and attacked by church members.

As a result, most LGBTQ folks assume they are not welcome in any church unless told otherwise. Reconciling in Christ seeks to make clear the policy of congregations that welcome all people as full members, regardless of their or their children’s sexual orientation.

At St. Paul’s the Reconciling in Christ committee leads educational forums in metro area congregations. Topics have included Biblical Perspectives on Sexuality, When Members of the Family are LGBTQ, History of Medical and Psychological Research on sexuality, and How St. Paul Lutheran Church became a Reconciling in Christ congregation.

The committee is available to lead sessions in area churches.

• Over the past twenty years we have had theological teaching sessions on human sexuality.
• Our pastors use sermon themes and illustrations that reference homosexuality.
• In 1997, the Congregation Council resolved to affirm the blessing of same sex unions at the church. We have all benefitted from those who have given and received such liturgical blessing and have pledged their faithfulness in unity.
• During the 1999 ELCA Churchwide Assembly in Denver, St Paul hosted two worship services which were planned and led by LGBTQ leaders and other supporters of full inclusion.
• We presented resolutions to Rocky Mountain Synod Assemblies in 2001-2007, advocating full inclusion of LGBTQ people and the ordaining of partnered gay and lesbian pastors and ministers.
• We support Denver’s annual Pride Week. We advertise in the gay press. The pastor and lay members have testified on behalf of LGBTQ civil rights legislation at the Colorado State Legislature. We have expanded the collection of resources on homosexuality in our library. Our Pastor, the Rev. Kevin Maly, PhD, served on the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Sexuality Task Force, which developed studies on homosexuality and the rostering of persons in committed gay or lesbian relationships. The Task Force made recommendationswhich were adopted by the ELCA at its national Churchwide Assembly in 2009.

Currently, the ELCA is living into its commitment to open the ministry of the church to gay and lesbian pastors and other professional workers living in committed relationships. The ELCA has committed itself to finding ways for congregations that choose to do so to "recognize, support and hold publicly accountable life-long, monogamous, same gender relationships." (2009 resolution)