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Homosexuality and Lutheranism, the Glossary

Index Homosexuality and Lutheranism

Lutheran viewpoints concerning homosexuality are diverse because there is no one worldwide body which represents all Lutherans.[1]

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  1. 92 relations: American Lutheran Church, Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, Baden, Bavaria, Blessing of same-sex unions in Christian churches, Bremen, Christianity and homosexuality, Church of Denmark, Church of Iceland, Church of Lippe, Church of Norway, Church of Sweden, Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America, Church of the Lutheran Confession, Confessional Evangelical Lutheran Conference, Duchy of Brunswick, Duchy of Nassau, Electorate of Hesse, Evangelical Church in Berlin, Brandenburg and Silesian Upper Lusatia, Evangelical Church in Central Germany, Evangelical Church in Germany, Evangelical Church in the Rhineland, Evangelical Church of Bremen, Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren, Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck, Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Poland, Evangelical Church of the Church Province of Saxony, Evangelical Church of the Palatinate, Evangelical Church of the River Plate, Evangelical Church of Westphalia, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Brunswick, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Lithuania, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Oldenburg, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Thuringia, Evangelical Lutheran Church of Brazil, Evangelical Lutheran Church of England, Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland, Evangelical Lutheran Church of Latvia, Evangelical Lutheran Church of Mecklenburg, Evangelical Lutheran Church of Schaumburg-Lippe, Evangelical Lutheran Free Church (Germany), Evangelical Lutheran Synod, Evangelical Lutheran Worship, Evangelical Reformed Church in Germany, Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Württemberg, Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Hanover, ... Expand index (42 more) »

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American Lutheran Church

The American Lutheran Church (ALC) was a Christian Protestant denomination in the United States and Canada that existed from 1960 to 1987.

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Association of Free Lutheran Congregations

The Association of Free Lutheran Congregations (AFLC) is the sixth largest Lutheran church body in the United States.

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Baden

Baden is a historical territory in South Germany.

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Bavaria

Bavaria, officially the Free State of Bavaria, is a state in the southeast of Germany.

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Blessing of same-sex unions in Christian churches

The blessing or wedding of same-sex marriages and same-sex unions is an issue about which leaders of Christian churches are in ongoing disagreement.

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Bremen

Bremen (Low German also: Breem or Bräm), officially the City Municipality of Bremen (Stadtgemeinde Bremen), is the capital of the German state of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (Freie Hansestadt Bremen), a two-city-state consisting of the cities of Bremen and Bremerhaven.

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Christianity and homosexuality

Within Christianity, there are a variety of views on sexual orientation and homosexuality.

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Church of Denmark

The Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Denmark or National Church (the People's Church, or unofficially label; the Congregation), sometimes called the Church of Denmark, is the established, state-supported church in Denmark.

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Church of Iceland

The Church of Iceland (The National Church), officially the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Iceland (hin evangelíska lúterska kirkja), is the national church of Iceland.

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Church of Lippe

The Church of Lippe (Lippische Landeskirche) is a Reformed (Calvinist) member church of the Protestant Church in Germany that covers what used to be the Principality of Lippe.

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Church of Norway

The Church of Norway (Den norske kirke, Den norske kyrkja, Norgga girku, Nöörjen gærhkoe) is an evangelical Lutheran denomination of Protestant Christianity and by far the largest Christian church in Norway.

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Church of Sweden

The Church of Sweden (Svenska kyrkan) is an Evangelical Lutheran national church in Sweden.

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Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America

The Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America (CLBA) is a Lutheran denomination of Christians rooted in a Pietist Lutheran spiritual awakening at the turn of the 20th century.

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Church of the Lutheran Confession

The Church of the Lutheran Confession (CLC) is a conservative Christian religious body theologically adhering to confessional Lutheran doctrine.

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Confessional Evangelical Lutheran Conference

The Confessional Evangelical Lutheran Conference (CELC) is an international fellowship of 34 Confessional Lutheran church bodies.

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Duchy of Brunswick

The Duchy of Brunswick (Herzogtum Braunschweig) was a historical German state that ceased to exist in 1918.

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Duchy of Nassau

The Duchy of Nassau (German: Herzogtum Nassau) was an independent state between 1806 and 1866, located in what is now the German states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse.

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Electorate of Hesse

The Electorate of Hesse (Kurfürstentum Hessen), also known as Hesse-Kassel or Kurhessen, was a state whose prince was given the right to elect the Emperor by the Imperial diet in 1803.

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Evangelical Church in Berlin, Brandenburg and Silesian Upper Lusatia

The Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia (Evangelische Kirche Berlin-Brandenburg-schlesische Oberlausitz, EKBO) is a United Protestant church body in the German states of Brandenburg, Berlin and a part of Saxony (historical region of Silesian Upper Lusatia).

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Evangelical Church in Central Germany

The Evangelical Church in Central Germany (German: Evangelische Kirche in Mitteldeutschland; EKM) is a United church body covering most of the German states of Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia and some adjacent areas in Brandenburg and Saxony.

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Evangelical Church in Germany

The Evangelical Church in Germany (Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland, EKD), also known as the Protestant Church in Germany, is a federation of twenty Lutheran, Reformed, and United Protestant regional Churches in Germany, collectively encompassing the vast majority of the country's Protestants.

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Evangelical Church in the Rhineland

The Protestant Church in the Rhineland (Evangelische Kirche im Rheinland; EKiR) is a United Protestant church body in parts of the German states of North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland and Hesse (Wetzlar).

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Evangelical Church of Bremen

The Evangelical Church of Bremen (Bremische Evangelische Kirche) is a United Protestant member church of the Protestant Church in Germany in the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen.

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Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren

The Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren (ECCB) (Českobratrská církev evangelická; ČCE) is the largest Czech Protestant church and the second-largest church in the Czech Republic after the Catholic Church.

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Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck

The Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck (Evangelische Kirche von Kurhessen-Waldeck; EKKW) is a United Protestant church body in former Hesse-Cassel and the Waldeck part of the former Free State of Waldeck-Pyrmont.

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Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Poland

The Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in the Republic of Poland (Kościół Ewangelicko-Augsburski w Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej) is a Lutheran denomination and the largest Protestant body in Poland with about 61,000 members and 133 parishes.

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Evangelical Church of the Church Province of Saxony

The Evangelical Church of the Church Province of Saxony (Evangelische Kirche der Kirchenprovinz Sachsen; KPS) was the most important Protestant denomination in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt.

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Evangelical Church of the Palatinate

Evangelical Church of the Palatinate (Evangelische Kirche der Pfalz (Protestantische Landeskirche)) is a United Protestant church in parts of the German states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland, endorsing both Lutheran and Calvinist orientations.

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Evangelical Church of the River Plate

The Evangelical Church of the River Plate (Iglesia Evangélica del Río de la Plata or IERP) is a United, Protestant denomination with congregations in Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay.

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Evangelical Church of Westphalia

The Protestant Church of Westphalia (Evangelische Kirche von Westfalen, EKvW) is a United Protestant church body in North Rhine-Westphalia.

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Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) is a mainline Protestant Lutheran church headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

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Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria (Evangelisch-Lutherische Kirche in Bayern) is a Lutheran member church of the Protestant Church in Germany in the German state of Bavaria.

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Evangelical Lutheran Church in Brunswick

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Brunswick (Evangelisch-Lutherische Landeskirche in Braunschweig) is a Lutheran church in the German states of Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt.

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Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC; Église évangélique luthérienne au Canada) is Canada's largest Lutheran denomination, with 95,000 baptized members in 519 congregations, with the second largest, the Lutheran Church–Canada, having 47,607 baptized members.

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Evangelical Lutheran Church in Lithuania

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Lithuania (Lietuvos Evangelikų Liuteronų Bažnyčia, ELCL) is a Lutheran church body comprising congregations in Lithuania.

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Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany (Evangelisch-Lutherische Kirche in Norddeutschland) is a Lutheran member church of the Protestant Church in Germany (Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland, EKD).

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Evangelical Lutheran Church in Oldenburg

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Oldenburg (Evangelisch-Lutherische Kirche in Oldenburg) is a Lutheran church in the German state of Lower Saxony.

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Evangelical Lutheran Church in Thuringia

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Thuringia (Evangelisch-Lutherische Kirche in Thüringen) was a Lutheran member church of the umbrella Protestant Church in Germany (Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland, EKD).

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Evangelical Lutheran Church of Brazil

The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Brazil (IELB) is a Lutheran church, which was founded in 1904 in Rio Grande do Sul, a southern state in Brazil.

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Evangelical Lutheran Church of England

The Evangelical Lutheran Church of England (ELCE) is a confessional Lutheran synod in the United Kingdom.

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Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland

The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland (Suomen evankelis-luterilainen kirkko; Evangelisk-lutherska kyrkan i Finland) is a national church of Finland.

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Evangelical Lutheran Church of Latvia

The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Latvia (Latvijas Evaņģēliski luteriskā baznīca, or LELB) is a Lutheran Protestant church in Latvia.

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Evangelical Lutheran Church of Mecklenburg

The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Mecklenburg (Evangelisch-Lutherische Landeskirche Mecklenburgs; abbreviated ELLM) was a Lutheran church in the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, serving the citizens living in Mecklenburg.

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Evangelical Lutheran Church of Schaumburg-Lippe

The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Schaumburg-Lippe (Evangelisch-Lutherische Landeskirche Schaumburg-Lippe) is a Lutheran member church (Landeskirche) of the Protestant Church in Germany.

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Evangelical Lutheran Free Church (Germany)

The Evangelical Lutheran Free Church (German: Evangelisch-Lutherische Freikirche, abbreviated ELFK) is a confessional Lutheran denomination based in Germany and Austria.

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Evangelical Lutheran Synod

The Evangelical Lutheran Synod (ELS) is a US-based Protestant Christian denomination based in Mankato, Minnesota.

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Evangelical Lutheran Worship

Evangelical Lutheran Worship (ELW) is the current primary liturgical and worship guidebook and hymnal for use in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC).

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Evangelical Reformed Church in Germany

The Evangelical Reformed Church (Evangelisch-reformierte Kirche), until 2009 Evangelical Reformed Church – Synod of Reformed Churches in Bavaria and Northwestern Germany (Evangelisch-reformierte Kirche – Synode evangelisch-reformierter Kirchen in Bayern und Nordwestdeutschland) is a Calvinist member church of the Protestant Church in Germany (EKD).

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Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Württemberg

The Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Württemberg (Evangelische Landeskirche in Württemberg) is a Lutheran member church of the Protestant Church in Germany in the German former state of Württemberg, now part of the state of Baden-Württemberg.

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Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Hanover

The Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Hanover (Evangelisch-lutherische Landeskirche Hannovers) is a Lutheran church body (Landeskirche) in the northern German state of Lower Saxony and the city of Bremerhaven covering the territory of the former Kingdom of Hanover.

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Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Saxony

The Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Saxony is one of 20 member Churches of the Protestant Church in Germany (EKD), covering most of the state of Saxony.

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Free State of Lippe

The Free State of Lippe (Freistaat Lippe) was created following the abdication of Prince Leopold IV of the Principality of Lippe on 15 November 1918, following the German Revolution.

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Free State of Oldenburg

The Free State of Oldenburg (Freistaat Oldenburg) was a federated state that existed during the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany.

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Guy Erwin

Robert Guy Erwin (born 1958, Pawhuska, Oklahoma) (Osage) is an American Lutheran bishop.

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Independent Evangelical-Lutheran Church

The Independent Evangelical-Lutheran Church (Selbständige Evangelisch-Lutherische Kirche, abbreviated SELK) is a confessional Lutheran church body of Germany.

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International Lutheran Council

The International Lutheran Council (ILC) is a worldwide association of confessional Lutheran denominations.

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Lower Saxony

Lower Saxony is a German state in northwestern Germany.

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Lutheran Church – Canada

Lutheran Church – Canada (LCC) is a confessional Lutheran denomination in Canada.

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Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod

The Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod (LCMS), also known as the Missouri Synod, is an orthodox, traditional, confessional Lutheran denomination in the United States.

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Lutheran Church in America

The Lutheran Church in America (LCA) was an American and Canadian Lutheran church body that existed from 1962 to 1987.

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Lutheran Church in Great Britain

The Lutheran Church in Great Britain (LCiGB) is a small Protestant Christian church in the United Kingdom.

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Lutheran Church in Malaysia

The Lutheran Church in Malaysia or LCM (Gereja Lutheran di Malaysia) is one of four Lutheran bodies in Malaysia.

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Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ

Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ (LCMC) is an association of Lutheran congregations located primarily in the United States.

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Lutheran World Federation

The Lutheran World Federation (LWF; Lutherischer Weltbund) is a global communion of national and regional Lutheran denominations headquartered in the Ecumenical Centre in Geneva, Switzerland.

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Lutheranism

Lutheranism is a major branch of Protestantism that identifies primarily with the theology of Martin Luther, the 16th-century German monk and reformer whose efforts to reform the theology and practices of the Catholic Church ended the Middle Ages and, in 1517, launched the Reformation.

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Martin Luther

Martin Luther (10 November 1483– 18 February 1546) was a German priest, theologian, author, hymnwriter, professor, and Augustinian friar.

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Mecklenburg

Mecklenburg (Mękel(n)borg) is a historical region in northern Germany comprising the western and larger part of the federal-state Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

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North American Lutheran Church

The North American Lutheran Church (NALC) is a Lutheran denomination with over 420 congregations in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, counting more than 142,000 baptized members.

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North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church

The North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church (Nordelbische Evangelisch-Lutherische Kirche; NEK) was a Lutheran regional church in Northern Germany which emerged from a merger of four churches in 1977 and merged with two more churches in 2012.

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Northern Germany

Northern Germany (Norddeutschland) is a linguistic, geographic, socio-cultural and historic region in the northern part of Germany which includes the coastal states of Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Lower Saxony and the two city-states Hamburg and Bremen.

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Palatinate (region)

The Palatinate (Pfalz; Palatine German: Palz), or the Rhenish Palatinate (Rheinpfalz), is a historical region of Germany.

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People's State of Hesse

The People's State of Hesse (Volksstaat Hessen) was one of the constituent states of Germany from 1918 to 1945, as the successor to the Grand Duchy of Hesse (Großherzogtum Hessen) after the defeat of the German Empire in World War I, on the territory of the current German states of Hesse and the Rhineland-Palatinate.

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Pomerania

Pomerania (Pomorze; Pommern; Kashubian: Pòmòrskô; Pommern) is a historical region on the southern shore of the Baltic Sea in Central Europe, split between Poland and Germany.

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Pomeranian Evangelical Church

The Pomeranian Evangelical Church (Pommersche Evangelische Kirche; PEK) was a Protestant regional church in the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, serving the citizens living in Hither Pomerania.

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Principality of Waldeck and Pyrmont

The County of Waldeck (later the Principality of Waldeck and Principality of Waldeck and Pyrmont) was a state of the Holy Roman Empire and its successors from the late 12th century until 1929.

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Protestant Church in Baden

The Protestant Church in Baden (Evangelische Landeskirche in Baden; i.e. Evangelical Regional Church in Baden) is a United Protestant member church of the Protestant Church in Germany (EKD), and member of the Conference of Churches on the Rhine (since 1961), which now functions as a regional group of the Community of Protestant Churches in Europe (CPCE).

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Protestant Church in Hesse and Nassau

The Protestant Church in Hesse and Nassau (Evangelische Kirche in Hessen und Nassau, EKHN) is a United Protestant church body in the German federal states of Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate.

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Protestant Church of Anhalt

The Protestant Church of Anhalt (Evangelische Landeskirche Anhalts) is a United Protestant member church of the Protestant Church in Germany.

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Province of Hanover

The Province of Hanover (Provinz Hannover) was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia and the Free State of Prussia from 1866 to 1946.

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Province of Saxony

The Province of Saxony (Provinz Sachsen), also known as Prussian Saxony (Preußisches Sachsen), was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia and later the Free State of Prussia from 1816 until 1944.

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ReconcilingWorks

ReconcilingWorks, initially named Lutherans Concerned for Gay People and subsequently Lutherans Concerned/North America, is an organization of laypeople, pastors, and congregations primarily from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC) working for the full acceptance and inclusion of people of all sexual orientations and gender identities and expressions in the life of the church.

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Rhineland

The Rhineland (Rheinland; Rhénanie; Rijnland; Rhingland; Latinised name: Rhenania) is a loosely defined area of Western Germany along the Rhine, chiefly its middle section.

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Riksdag

The Riksdag (also riksdagen or Sveriges riksdag) is the legislature and the supreme decision-making body of the Kingdom of Sweden.

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Same-sex marriage

Same-sex marriage, also known as gay marriage, is the marriage of two people of the same legal sex.

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Saxony

Saxony, officially the Free State of Saxony, is a landlocked state of Germany, bordering the states of Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, Bavaria, as well as the countries of Poland and the Czech Republic.

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Saxony-Anhalt

Saxony-Anhalt (Sachsen-Anhalt; Sassen-Anholt) is a state of Germany, bordering the states of Brandenburg, Saxony, Thuringia and Lower Saxony.

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Silesian Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession

The Silesian Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession (SECAC) (Slezská církev evangelická augsburského vyznání (SCEAV), Śląski Kościół Ewangelicki Wyznania Augsburskiego) is the biggest Lutheran Church in the Czech Republic.

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Thuringia

Thuringia, officially the Free State of Thuringia, is a state of central Germany, covering, the sixth smallest of the sixteen German states.

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Württemberg

Württemberg is a historical German territory roughly corresponding to the cultural and linguistic region of Swabia.

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Westphalia

Westphalia (Westfalen; Westfalen) is a region of northwestern Germany and one of the three historic parts of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

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Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod

The Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS), also referred to simply as the Wisconsin Synod, is an American Confessional Lutheran denomination of Christianity.

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2009 ELCA Churchwide Assembly

The 2009 ELCA Churchwide Assembly was the eleventh biennial Churchwide Assembly of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Homosexuality and Lutheranism and 2009 ELCA Churchwide Assembly are LGBT and Lutheranism.

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See also

LGBT and Lutheranism

Lutheran theology

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality_and_Lutheranism

Also known as LGBT and Lutheranism, Lutheran views of homosexuality.

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