Pennsylvania Lutheran seminary fires president over 'conversion medication'

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - -The board of trustees at a prominent Lutheran seminary in Pennsylvania has voted to blaze the school's president after it was uncovered she worked for a group which promoted "conversion medication." United Lutheran Seminary said Wednesday it has fired the Rev. Bishop James Dunlop, of the reduce Susquehanna Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in US, going to serve as acting president. The Philadelphia Inquirer formerlyannounced Latini worked as a director for OnebyOne for 5 years starting in 1996. The group promoted a medication which attempts to change sexistorientation or the method people identify their gender.

Lutheran seminary fires president over 'conversion medication'

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The board of trustees at a prominent Lutheran seminary in Pennsylvania has voted to blaze the school's president after it was uncovered she worked for a group which promoted "conversion medication."United Lutheran Seminary said Wednesday it has fired the Rev. Bishop James Dunlop, of the reduce Susquehanna Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in US, going to serve as acting president. The Philadelphia Inquirer formerlyannounced Latini worked as a director for OnebyOne for 5 years starting in 1996. The group promoted a medication which attempts to change sexistorientation or the method people identify their gender. Latini told PennLive.com Wednesday she has been "scapegoated by a historically divided institution."8 members of the board have quit in connection by the revelations which angered students & staff.

Lutheran seminary president ousted in controversy over past "conversion medication" work

referring to A prominent Lutheran seminary by 2 campuses in Pennsylvania is having a stormy moment of reckoning over the early-career, "conversion medication" work by its premier-year president. That moment reached a climax at the United Lutheran Seminary Wednesday, by the school's board of trustees polling to finish the Rev. United Lutheran Seminary is the modern-day result of a merger among longstanding seminaries in Gettysburg & Philadelphia. The ousted president, for her portion, has renounced her work in the conversion medication field, that she said was impacted by her "fundamentalist upbringing." The Evangelical Lutheran Church in US, by that United Lutheran Seminary is affiliated, is the largest of North US's Lutheran denominations.

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