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Title: ELCA Assembly Adopts 'Human Sexuality: Gift and Trust'
ELCA NEWS SERVICE

>August 19, 2009  

ELCA Assembly Adopts 'Human Sexuality: Gift and Trust'
09-CWA-15-MRC

MINNEAPOLIS (ELCA) -- The 2009 Churchwide Assembly of the
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) adopted "Human Sexuality:
Gift and Trust" with a vote of 676 (66.67 percent) to 338 (33.33
percent). The passing of the social statement on human sexuality required
a two-thirds vote.
	The churchwide assembly, the chief legislative authority of the
ELCA, is meeting here Aug. 17-23 at the Minneapolis Convention Center. 
About 2,000 people are participating, including 1,045 ELC voting
members.  The theme for the biennial assembly is "God's work.  Our hands."
	Human Sexuality: Gift and Trust is the denomination's 10th social
statement. Social statements assist Lutherans in their moral
deliberation, govern the ELCA's institutional policies and guide the
church's advocacy work. The statement addresses a spectrum of topics
relevant to human sexuality from a Lutheran perspective.
	More details to follow.
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	Information about the 2009 ELCA Churchwide Assembly is at
http://www.elca.org/assembly on the Web.  

For information contact:

John Brooks, Director (773) 380-2958 or news@elca.org
http://www.elca.org/news
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