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In reaction, [[Lutheran CORE]], which opposed the decision, stated that it would "initiate a process that we hope will lead to a reconfiguration of North American Lutheranism."<ref>{{Cite web|last=Spring|first=Paull E.|date=September 4, 2009|title=Update on Lutheran CORE's Convocation|url=http://www.lutherancore.org/papers/spring_pre_convoc_ltr.shtml|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727050528/http://www.lutherancore.org/papers/spring_pre_convoc_ltr.shtml|archive-date=July 27, 2011}}</ref> In February 2010, Lutheran CORE announced that it would secede from the ELCA and form a new denomination to be named the [[North American Lutheran Church]] (NALC).<ref>{{Cite web|date=February 18, 2010|title=A Vision and Plan for The North American Lutheran Church and Lutheran CORE, a community of confessing Lutherans|url=http://www.lutherancore.org/papers/new_vision.shtml|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100304071324/http://www.lutherancore.org/papers/new_vision.shtml|archive-date=March 4, 2010|website=Lutheran CORE}}</ref> {{As of|2008}}, 37 percent of ELCA pastors were found to support [[same-sex marriage]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Jones |first1=Robert P. |last2=Cox |first2=Daniel |title=Mainline Protestant Clergy Views on Theology and Gay and Lesbian Issues: Findings from the 2008 Clergy Voices Survey |url=http://www.publicreligion.org/objects/uploads/fck/file/CVS%20Theology%20and%20LGBT.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100821140414/http://www.publicreligion.org/objects/uploads/fck/file/CVS%20Theology%20and%20LGBT.pdf |archive-date=2010-08-21 |access-date=2009-09-26 |page=7}}</ref>
The ELCA, in removing sexual orientation as a bar for candidacy in the professional ministry, joined most of its Lutheran sister churches in Europe, including in Germany, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, and Austria.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Streit um homosexuelle Pfarrer|url=http://www.nordelbien.de/nachrichten/newsne.1/one.news/index.html?entry=page.newsne.201101.32|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719065955/http://www.nordelbien.de/nachrichten/newsne.1/one.news/index.html?entry=page.newsne.201101.32|archive-date=July 19, 2011}}</ref> The ELCA is also among a growing number of Christian churches in the United States to make this move
In contrast, the board of one of the ELCA's partner churches, the [[Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus|Evangelical Mekane Yesus Fellowship in North America]], voted in October 2009 to declare disunity with the ELCA. A press release stated that the board was no longer "in good conscience" "able to commune and partner with ELCA Church that has willfully disobeyed the word of God and regrettably departed from the clear instructions of the Holy Scriptures" that "marriage is only between a man and a woman". This was followed by the general synod of the [[Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus]] also breaking links with the ELCA.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Weber |first=Katherine |date=February 8, 2013 |title=Ethiopian Church Severs Ties With Lutherans Over Homosexuality |url=https://www.christianpost.com/news/ethiopian-church-severs-ties-with-lutherans-over-homosexuality.html |access-date=2021-06-09 |website=The Christian Post |archive-date=June 9, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210609185811/https://www.christianpost.com/news/ethiopian-church-severs-ties-with-lutherans-over-homosexuality.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
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