America voted 187 to 167 on Sunday to reject a proposal to allow gay clergy members to be in same-sex relationships, reports the Associated Press.Congregations in the 4.7 million–member ELCA currently are voting on whether to allow openly gay clergy members to be in monogamous same-sex relationships. The present policy allows clergy members to be openly gay, but requires them to be celibate. Input from the 65 individual synods will be considered when the national ELCA votes on the issue at its Churchwide Assembly in Minneapolis in August.
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