In reply to Morticia.

Why do we stay??

Because there are many of us who take God's Word seriously. The Bible is very clear that sex is reserved for a life long marriage between a man and a woman. And while the LCMS sometimes (well often) proclaims that in such way as to make us gay people feel, well, to be honest, kind of like dirt, and even more frequently forgets to apply the Gospel to our specific sin/temptation, nevertheless, the LCMS is one of the few church bodies in which one does receive the means of grace. And that is worth staying for.

So, if it is a choice between being pointed to my own self worth and being told that Jesus is a really nice guy who had warm feelings for the "marginalized"....

and...

being told that I am "profoundly unnatural" and a "perversion" but being pointed to Christ as a savior who died for me and is a friend of sinners....

then I will take the second option because I survive without friends here on earth but I can't survive with out the cross, without the Word and without the sacraments.