Thank you for your interest in Virtually Lutheran Dot Com.  The real issue and the focus of our website is not interpersonal.  It is, rather, about public doctrine and practice.  The persons behind the site are irrelevant.  Identifying ourselves would only serve to distract.  Knowing our names would not somehow change the public confession of faith of Lutheran Church‒Canada or the public content of the listed websites, nor does the Bible teach that an unsigned statement of faith is sinful or that linking to and identifying a public website is an offense against love.  In the old Martin Luther movie Luther addresses Eck:  "It doesn't matter who said it.  It is the truth."

We did not create the objectionable sites.  They may be viewed freely by the whole world, the well-instructed and the ignorant alike, and by their identification with Lutheran Church‒Canada they affect the public face of the Synod and every member congregation and pastor of the Synod.  It is the Synod's responsibility to protect its members from this public offense, not to endorse it. 

In the Large Catechism (Eighth Commandment) Luther teaches about addressing public error:

All this has been said regarding secret sins. But where the sin is quite public so that the judge and everybody know it, you can without any sin avoid him and let him go, because he has brought himself into disgrace, and you may also publicly testify concerning him. For when a matter is public in the light of day, there can be no slandering or false judging or testifying; as, when we now reprove the Pope with his doctrine, which is publicly set forth in books and proclaimed in all the world. For where the sin is public, the reproof also must be public, that every one may learn to guard against it. (284)
 

 While the reader may not find the site "nice", the fact that the LCC website provides links to congregational websites without consideration for their content is far more objectionable.  In other words, the LCC website promotes what is in some cases blatant heresy, without qualification or disclaimer (http://www.lutheranchurch.ca/congregations.html), though the Synod exists "to conserve and promote the unity of the true faith . . . and provide a united defence against schism, sectarianism and heresy." (Constitution, Art. III)   Virtually Lutheran Dot Com similarly provides links to congregational webpages, while identifying the errors and even heresies supported by them.  We believe this is in keeping with the Word of the Lord Jesus Christ through his apostle, St. Paul, who said, "Mark those who cause divisions and offenses contrary to the doctrine you have been taught." (Romans 16:17)  Even if we were to shut down this site immediately, the agreed upon doctrine and practice of Lutheran Church‒Canada would remain, as would the listed websites in public defiance of it.  The Pharisees too said to Jesus, "Rebuke your disciples."  He replied, "I tell you, if they keep quiet, even the stones will cry out." (Luke 19:40)

If the manner of our doing this will be the issue, then we would call the reader's attention to the manner of the congregations in question.  Though they claim a synodical relationship to the other congregations and pastors of Lutheran Church-Canada, they have set aside the Synod's public confession and practice and have adopted a confession and practice of their own.  They did this without the knowledge and approval of the other LCC members, and they have been so brazen and bold as to publish this to the world.  In doing so they have already broken fellowship with those members of LCC who conform their teaching and practice to what has been commonly agreed upon within the Synod.  From a different perspective, a member of an LCC congregation should expect to able to attend the Divine Service in any congregation of the Synod and not face the prospect of communing with those of another confession, the use of grape juice, re-baptism, lay ministry, unionism, conventicles, and strange forms of worship.  It is the height of arrogance and utterly loveless that these things are done by those who vowed to their LCC brothers and before Christ not to do them!  If a person buys space on a billboard and there declares by name that he is being unfaithful to his wife, who would not be free to call him an adulterer?  Would we not have more compassion for the wife than her unfaithful husband? 

Virtually Lutheran Dot Com would not exist if Lutheran Church‒Canada were a truly confessional and orthodox synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church.