In reply to Paula.

I assume that LCMS has sinners of every description. No one has suggested that those sinners might not include homosexuals; of course there are members of LCMS churches who have homosexual urges--some of whom act on those urges and some of whom do not. The church cannot sanctify the robber's robbery, the lecher's lechery, the thief's thievery--and cannot sanctify the homosexual's homosexuality. What it can do for the homosexual is the same thing it does for every sinner. That is to proclaim the redemption of sinners and preach repentance and the forgiveness of sins.