In June, Bradley Schmeling was officially removed from the clergy roster of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America for being in a same-sex relationship. ELCA policy excludes from ordained ministry gays who are in a relationship. However, the parish that Schmeling has served for over six years, St.
Kate Lewis and Pat Hendrickson may be ordained clergy, but even before they became the latest couple eliminated from television’s The Amazing Race, they knew that God wasn’t really watching.
“We are religious people, but we have no illusions that God cares whether we win The Amazing Race,” Lewis, 49, an Episcopal priest, said on the November 11 episode.
God may not have been watching, but millions of other viewers were.