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TAMU Bridge Club: general
meeting at 8:00 p.m. HRBB 321. For
any information call Mary at 696-
2857.
Pre-Law Society: general meeting-
attorney panel at 8:00 p.m. in 601
Rudder.
American Laboratory Theater:
one-act play: "Orchids in the Moon
light", by Carlos Fuentes at 8:00 p.m.
in the Fallout Theater, Blocker 144.
For any information call the Theater
Arts Box Office at 862-2052.
Corps Chaplains: Christian
Night-no alcohol from 9:00 p.m.-1:00
a m. at the Hall of Fame.
Women's Bonfire Committee:
general meeting at 7:00 p.m. in 401
Rudder. For any information call An-
What's Up
gela at 847-2800.
Center for Academic Enhance
ment: free course in managing college
reading at 7:00 p.m. in Blocker 242.
For any information call 845-2568.
ExCEL: team leader meeting at
6:30 p.m. in 114 RICH. For any infor
mation call Rico at 847-6191.
National Organization for
Women: guest lecture on personal
safety from a member of the College
Station Police Department at 7:00
p.m. in 145 MSC. For any information
call Kathy at 847-2253.
Agricultural Communications of
Tomorrow (ACT): general meting at
7:30 p.m. in 123 Kleberg. For more in
formation call Royce at 764-3012.
Agnostic and Atheist Student
Group: guest lecture on Catholicism
by Father Michael J. Sis from 7:00-9:00
p.m. in Blocker 158. For any informa
tion call Brett at 268-AASG.
TAMU Economics Society: gener
al meeting in 413 Harrington at 6:30
p.m. For any information call Michael
at 846-2932.
TAMU Zoological Society: guest
speaker on the Nudi branch of the
world at 7:00 p.m. in 502 Rudder. For
any information call Derek at 693-
4058.
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that lists non-profit student and facul
ty events and activities. Items should
be submitted no later than three days
in advance of the desired run date.
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tions, please call the newsroom at
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according to Lutheran task force report
Church (U.S.A.) have rejected proposals to loosen
church strictures on homosexuality.
The issue has no more vanished from the sanctu
aries than from the streets, as attested by the raucous
protests by gay church members and their support
ers after the votes. The Methodists, Episcopalians
and Presbyterians all are engaged in new studies of
homosexuality.
Within the ELCA, the 67-member Conference of
Bishops has already expressed reservations about the
report. The ELCA falls on the moderate end of main
line Protestantism but is more liberal than the 2.6
million-member Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod.
A motion earlier this month to postpone work on
the sexuality statement indefinitely was withdrawn,
but bishops expressed concern the proposal could
threaten the new denomination's unity.
The wide-ranging report begins with a confession
that the church has too often overlooked "the created
goodness of sexuality."
The task force urges children, adolescents and
adults to learn the pleasures their bodies can give
them. "Masturbation, a means of self-pleasuring, is
generally appropriate and healthy," the task force
said.
In many places, the report upholds traditional
church teachings. Marriage is affirmed as a divine
and blessed estate, and teen-agers are encouraged to
be chaste until they enter "a permanent commit
ment."
The report attacks adultery, promiscuity, sexual
abuse, prostitution, anti-gay violence, pornography
and the exploitation of sexuality in advertising and
entertainment.
"This is not anything goes. There are some things
we stand against,” the Rev. Karen Bloomquist, direc
tor of the sexuality study, saidlin an interview Tues
day.
Bloomquist said the statement balances tradition
with the contemporary realities of sexual relation
ships among unmarried people, heterosexual and
homosexual.
Masturbation is healthy, the Bible supports homo
sexual unions and teaching teens how to use con
doms to prevent disease is a moral imperative, says a
task force leading the nation's largest Lutheran body
into the sex wars.
Four years in the making, a draft statement going
before the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
declares that the core of human sexuality should be
loving, committed relationships.
"It is the binding commitment, not the license or
ceremony, that lies at the heart of biblical under
standings of marriage," says the statement. "In those
circumstances where a legal marriage is not feasible,
communities of faith may need to consider other
ways of publicly affirming and communally sup
porting a loving, binding commitment between two
people."
The 21-page report — "The Church and Human
Sexuality: A Lutheran Perspective," a copy of which
was released to The Associated Press — is to be sent
later this week to 19,000 pastors and other church
leaders in the 5.2 million-member denomination.
Local churches have until next June to respond. A
| second draft will be prepared for a churchwide as-
| sembly of lay and clergy delegates in 1995.
The report is the ELCA's first attempt to grapple
I with sexuality since it was formed in 1988 by the
merger of the Lutheran Church in America, the
American Lutheran Church and the Association of
Evangelical Lutheran Churches.
Foreshadowing current U.S. ferment over gay
rights, mainline Protestant denominations have been
convulsed in recent years over demands by gay and
lesbian members that churches accord them formal
acceptance and the right of ordination. The United
Church of Christ is the only major Protestant denom
ination to permit the ordination of homosexuals.
In the last two years, the Episcopal Church, the
United Methodist Church and the Presbyterian
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