Editing Religion and sexuality (section)

===== Lutheran and Reformed churches =====
The [[Confessional Lutheran]] tradition, which includes several denominations worldwide (such as the [[Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod]]) takes a traditional stance towards human sexuality, teaching that "God created male and female, sexual human beings".<ref name="Sonnenberg2013">{{cite web |last1=Sonnenberg |first1=Roger |title=The Gift of Sexuality |url=https://files.lcms.org/file/preview/y0hee6DUKO7K2yXDxveNoiXdEcvSQ4og |publisher=[[Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod]] |access-date=12 December 2024 |language=en |date=2013}}</ref> Confessional Lutherans hold that "Upon creating man and women and the rest of creation, God observed that 'it (was) good,' including the gift of sex."<ref name="Sonnenberg2013"/> The Confessional Lutheran denominations view "pornography, homosexuality and cohabitation" as sinful.<ref name="Sonnenberg2013"/>

All 20 [[Lutheranism|Lutheran]] and [[Calvinism|Reformed]] churches of the [[Evangelical Church in Germany]] welcome LGBT members,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ekd.de/lebensgemeinschaft_2000.html |title=Verläßlichkeit und Verantwortung stärken |language=German |date=2000}}</ref> as well as the [[Protestant Church in the Netherlands]].<ref name="brunne" /> In these Lutheran and Reformed churches gay ministers are permitted in ministry and gay married couples are allowed in their churches.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/eine-neue-evangelische-sexualethik.1278.de.html?dram:article_id=225003|title=- Eine neue evangelische Sexualethik|website=Deutschlandfunk Kultur|date=20 October 2012 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url = https://www.zeit.de/gesellschaft/zeitgeschehen/2015-08/sexualitaet-evangelische-kirche-ekd-grundsatzerklaerung| title = Zeit.de: Sex auf Evangelisch (german), 2015| newspaper = Die Zeit| date = 8 August 2015| last1 = Welt| first1 = Christ &.}}</ref>

Inside the Lutheran [[Church of Sweden]], the Bishop of Stockholm, [[Eva Brunne]] is a [[lesbian]] in a registered partnership with Gunilla Lindén, who is also an ordained priest of the Church of Sweden.<ref name="brunne">{{Cite web |url=http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_116555_ENG_HTM.htm |title=SWEDEN: Lesbian priest ordained as Lutheran bishop of Stockholm. Episcopal News Service. |access-date=2011-06-24 |archive-date=January 2, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100102013508/http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_116555_ENG_HTM.htm |url-status=dead}}</ref>