Everyone knows the conflict over sexuality within the Episcopal Church has been a media favorite at least since General Convention 2003. Last year the ELCA (the largest Lutheran denomination in the country) voted to all partnered gays and lesbians to serve as clergy. It seemed to me at the time that for all the media coverage of our conflict, there was relatively little coverage of the parallel debate among Lutherans. I assumed it was because there was simply less controversy and fewer dissidents among the Lutherans. I may be wrong. Here’s an interesting take on the different treatment of the two denominations.

What’s most interesting to me is that in the comments following this article, various Episcopalians, and former ones, air their grievances and revisit the controversy. I’m wondering whether the difference in media coverage is in part due to the vitriol that passes back and forth between the two sides. Perhaps Lutherans are just too polite to lock horns in public as Episcopalians are wont to do.