Lutheran Church takes steps toward gay ordination
(Minneapolis, Minnesota) Brad Froslee was installed as pastor of Calvary Lutheran Church at a special Sunday service attended by dozens of his fellow pastors, as well as Froslee’s proud parents and grandmother, all devoted lifelong Lutherans.
But the Minneapolis Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America officially lists Calvary’s ministry …
Craig nixes further appeals
(Minneapolis, Minnesota) Former Idaho Sen. Larry Craig has reached the end of the road in his effort to reverse his conviction in an airport bathroom sex sting, one of his lawyers said Thursday.
Attorney Tom Kelly said Craig had decided against asking the Minnesota Supreme Court to void the conviction. The …
Franken rival heads to court
(Minneapolis, Minnesota) No longer a U.S. senator, Republican Norm Coleman was headed to court Tuesday, seeking to overturn a state board’s certification that Democrat Al Franken won the U.S. Senate recount.
Coleman’s lawyers had promised a legal challenge a day earlier, arguing that some ballots were mishandled and others were wrongly …
Larry Craig loses appeal in airport gay sting case
(Minneapolis, Minnesota) A three-judge panel of the Minnesota Court of Appeals on Tuesday rejected Sen. Larry Craig’s bid to toss out his disorderly conduct conviction.
Craig, a three-term Republican from Idaho, pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct in August 2007 after he was accused of soliciting sex from an undercover police officer …
