Ok, your post reminds me of the discussion in another thread re: seminarians who will not be ordained if their wife is not a LCMS member. Now, let's take this situation a step further, as I am sure the situation must arise from time to time. Let's say a single man gets ordained and then after ordination and placement he falls deeply in love and marries. What would happen to the pastor under various circumstances:
(1) He marries a non-LCMS Lutheran, who will not convert, but agrees to allow the children to be raised in the husband's faith?
(2) He marries a non-Lutheran Protestant, who again will not convert, but she agrees to allow the children to be raised LCMS?
(3) He marries a Catholic, who again will not convert, but does agree to allow the children to be raised LCMS?
For any of you WELS Lutherans, I would respectfully ask the same questions. What would happen to your single pastors, who marry outside the WELS faith after ordination and placement - be the wife non-WELS Lutheran, a non-Lutheran Protestant or a Catholic, and again assuming that in all three cases the wife refuses to convert, but agrees to allow the children to be raised in the WELS faith?