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More Journeying Together Faithfully
Abstract: How much of the ELCA proposed social statement on sexuality is already written?
Also at the Lindenhurst meeting, Pr. Paull Spring, chair of Lutheran Core, voiced his displeasure that the Task Force on Sexuality Studies (TFSS) had begun drafting the proposed Social Statement on Sexuality "before hearing from the church" as far back as April. (He was reporting what he'd learned at the April meeting of the ELCA Church council.)
We doubt there is a need to get all huffy about this, but it does raise interesting questions.
Since the Task Force has been soliciting input from the church since Fall, 2002, isn't it reasonable to expect them to have drafted something?
On the other hand, the most recent Churchwide Assembly referred a ton of Synod Assembly actions to the Task Force. If a social statement has already been drafted, is it already too late for the material referred to the Task Force to affect the proposed social statement?
And just how will the Task Force (which just completed its first meeting since the Churchwide Assembly) signal that it has considered the Synod Assembly actions referred by the Churchwide Assembly?
