Well it’s ‘bout time.

And I’m astonished to see this coming from the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod!

reporter.lcms.org
Lutheran Church official calls for white nationalists to be excommunicated

A top Lutheran church official is calling for the excommunication of unrepentant white nationalists, attacking their beliefs as “evil.”

This is evil. We condemn it in the name of Christ,” Matthew Harrison, president of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, wrote in a open letter last week in the Reporter, the official newspaper of his synod.

He and all leaders of the synod “categorically reject the horrible and racist teachings of the so-called ‘alt-right’ in toto (including white supremacy, Nazism, pro-slavery, anti-interracial marriage, women as property, fascism, death for homosexuals, even genocide),” Harrison wrote.

He said he was “shocked” to learn recently that a few members of LCMS congregations have been “propagating radical and unchristian ‘alt-right’ views” on social media.” Some of the posts even threatened church members and leaders online, he noted.