Local Kentucky Lutheran's to also decide about gay/lesbian clergy?

Noting specific divisions within the Lutheran church over gay and lesbian clergy presiding over congregations, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) task force recommended a policy that will be considered at their biannual convention in August 2009. The proposed policy would allow local congregations to decide whether or not those in “lifelong, monogamous, same-gender relationships” would be allowed to lead as clergy.

Gays and lesbians can now serve as clergy in the ELCA if they remain celibate, although some have challenged the system and hired pastors who are in same-sex relationships.

Opposing views in the church claim that homosexuality is a sin, basing their arguments on individual interpretations of the Bible.