Currently the LCMS is supporting Planned Parenthood trough their synod colleges. Found on Concordia Chicago's website: http://www.cuchicago.edu/Documents/Academics/College%20of%20Arts%20and%20Sciences/psychology/Psych%20Roadmap/Internship%20Site%20and%20Contact%20List%20-%202012.pdf?source=search-result

Concordia Chicago has Planned Parenthood listed as a place for their students to do their internships. Before the LCMS including pastors, teachers, synod leaders, and members slam other organizations they need to take a look at their own practices.

Of course this is not the first time the LCMS has taken their own "neutrality" position. In May 2012 when the Boy Scouts of America voted to allow homosexuals into the organization the synod decided to allow each congregation to make its own decision as to what they wanted to do with the troops in their churches. For those churches that decided to allow the Boys Scouts to remain in them, even if your troop does not allow homosexuals in it, they are still supporting the Boy Scouts of America and their policies. Everytime dues are paid by one of it's members BSA is being supporting, everytime someone buys popcorn you are supporting BSA and their policies.

As a lifelong member of the LCMS, a previous LCMS teacher, pastors wife, daugter in law of LCMS pastor and teacher, I am very saddend by the way the LCMS has reacted to this situation. Instead of acting in love as outline in many places in the Bible, the LCMS including the synod leaders have acted in hate Jesus said in Matthew 5:21-22 "You have heard that it was said to the people long ago, 'do not murder, anyone who murders will be subject to Judgment.' But I tell you that anyone who is angry with his brother will be subject to judgment." In God's eyes the talk that I have seen displayed on here will be judged by God in the same way he judges murderers, in His eyes they are both the same. Again Jesus outlined for us how we are to approach someone who has sinned against us in Matthew 18:15-17, "If your brother sinsagainst you, go ad show him his fault, just between the two of you. If he listens to you, you have won your brother over. But if he will not listen, take one or two others along, so that every matter may be established by the testimony oftwo or tree witnesses. If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if he refuses to listen even to the church treat him as you would a pagan or a tax collector." When this situation arose it was immediately broadcast to the world on social network, instead of calling Thrivent and raising the concern as Jesus outlined for us to do. How many of you would be ok with your sins being broadcast to the world on social network? I know many pastors with their own deep dark sins that would not like that. And at what point in time did Thrivent not respond to the situation? They immediatly took action to take care of what YOUR church members voted on. So why are we treating them like pagans and tax collectors? And can we please quite blaming the ELCA churces for this, there are a lot more LCMS churches and members of Thrivent than their are ELCA, and there are plenty of LCMS members that are pro-abortion, as stated above even supported by our synod colleges! As far as other denominations having a part in this, they will not even have a say until a future date and again it was members of your churches that voted to allow that change to happen.