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Although there is wide variation within those. While the Anglican churches with which I am familiar have no problem with female ministers, I distinctly remember it being a live issue within the wider church, and it probably still is. Or take the Lutherans (which is really an umbrella term for several groups): I think of them as basically Anglicans with different words, but even just a few years ago (maybe still, I don’t know) the church on Willow St. explicitly advertised a “Biblical” (i.e., bigoted) view on homosexuality.

Indeed, the Missouri Synod Lutherans are far more hardline than the Euro-style Lutherans from northern Europe.