Lutherans in Northern California plainly defied their denomination February 18 by the agency of ordaining a gay minister who lives with another man.

Lutherans in Northern California plainly defied their denomination February 18 by the agency of ordaining a gay minister who lives with another man. Craig Minich, 29 was named director of youth ministries for St Paul and United Lutheran churches in Oakland and University Lutheran Chapel of Berkeley. The three parishes are affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran house of god in America, which requires publicly gay candidates for the ministry to take a devote of celibacy because of the church's belief that sex should take place simply within a traditional marriage. After the rite Sunday, Minich said he had no words to describe the rapture he felt. In an earlier statement, he had said, "I have forfeited the love and support of my father, friends, and mentors because I am gay, if it be not that what I gained after I finally came public of the closet far outweighs what I have lost"

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