Luther Must Be So Proud

According to Frank Pastore at Townhall.com, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America has just voted to "to no longer enforce the celibacy requirement for their unmarried staff--both straight and gay..."
In his column, Mr. Pastore is understandably concerned that this might send a confused message to the youth that these staff members minister.
I would love to know what the early reformers would think of their modern namesakes...

Comments

[Publius]

Yeah. Luther would insist that such permission be reserved to Hessian Landgraves providing military and political support to the Reformation, not given to every odd minister with a girlfriend or boyfriend.

[cjmr]

Apparently I crossed the Tiber just in time.

Five years ago the Church Council at our ELCA church was debating whether to allow an engaged couple to work as youth ministers before their wedding. Now this?

[PeterTerp]

The 101 curriculum here at UMD has its instructors teach students that the slippery slope is a logical fallacy.

I agree that, in terms of pure logic, it is a weak position to hold. After all, the real problem in a slippery slope argument is not the issue at hand, but issues that might result from the issue at hand. If you can just make sure to build giant safety nets on your slope, you should survive any slippage.

That being said, the slippery slope does seem to occur with alarming frequency...and people often forget to secure those safety nets as well as they had intended.

[Lindsay]

I've always had trouble understanding the slippery slope fallacy. Is the problem that it's described as slippery, not just a slope?