The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America will soon release a draft of its social statement on human sexuality, including proposed teaching on gay relationships.

“Free in Christ to Serve the Neighbor: Lutherans Talk about Human Sexuality” is to be made public March 13 by the Task Force for ELCA Studies on Sexuality.

Like many of their Protestant counterparts, the Lutherans has been uneased for years on the different views of what the Bible has to says about same sex relationships to the ever changing dynamics of today’s acceptance of homosexuality.

Current church standards require clergy to “abstain from homosexual sexual relationships.” But last year the Churchwide Assembly adopted a resolution that “urges and encourages” bishops to refrain from disciplining clergy in “faithful, committed” same-sex relationships.

KEYWORD: Faithful, commited relationship. Hey BJ, we’re saved! ;-)