Word: swenson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suit of one Gladys Sundseth of Minneapolis for a divorce from her husband Arnold has assumed large significance in the annals of the Lutheran Church. Called as a witness at the hearings last fortnight was Lutheran Pastor Emil Swenson, Augustana Synod, who was questioned as follows...
...Pastor Swenson: "That conversation was held in confidence and I cannot reveal it. The rules of the church forbid me to reveal information imparted to me confidentially, and in good conscience I have to refuse to answer the question...
Whereupon Judge Paul W. Guilford held Pastor Swenson in contempt of court, sentenced him to 30 days in jail or to pay $100 fine...
...Augustana Synod which would forbid a pastor from revealing information given to him at a confessional. Judge Guilford said he did not regard the Lutheran confession as binding upon the pastor, as is the Catholic confession. To this line of reasoning, the Rev. Leonard Kendall, a colleague of Pastor Swenson, replied...
...obligated by any rule of the Lutheran church to make any sort of a confession. The statute therefore, did not apply. While many a U. S. Lutheran waited to hear whether his voluntary confessions to his pastor might some day be exposed before all men, Pastor Swenson was given a 30-day stay and his lawyers went for him to the Supreme Court of Minnesota...