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Originally Posted by AlphaFrog
I don't think I ever encountered that in my LCMS church that I grew up in...but I think we were on the liberal side of the LCMS. I KNOW my current ELCA church isn't against GLOs.
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I have encountered it with some LCMS folk. And I've encountered it more with Masons than with GLOs. I think GLOs perhaps suffer guilt by association.
One has to consider, too, that the "Lutheran landscape" was quite different in 1925, when Beta Sigma Psi was founded, than it is today. There was no ELCA then -- the American Lutheran world was much more, I'll say "disjointed," for want of a better word, then it is now. There were quite a few synods and groups, usually with specific ethnic or linguistic backgrounds, that over time both become less German/Swedish/Norwegian etc. and more American and have coalesced into what is now the ELCA or remained somewhat seperate and attracted like-minded Lutherans, like the LCMS or WELS. In 1925, a specifically Lutheran fraternity apparently met a need, and apparently it still does for some.
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