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Lower Susquehanna Dialectic
Abstract: Lower Susquehanna Synod to consider antithetical memorials.
The Lower Susquehanna Synod Assembly will consider two opposed memorials. A so-called "revisionist" memorial was submitted by the Harrisburg Conference and is modeled on Goodsoil Memorial 2 ("Refrain from Discipline"). The Synod's Committee on Memorials has put forward a so-called "traditionalist" memorial titled Composite Memorial to The Lower Susquehanna Synod Regarding Interdependence and Living Together Faithfully As It Concerns the Official Blessing of Same-Sex Relationships. Whew.
The "Composite Memorial" reads in part::
RESOLVED, that the Lower Susquehanna Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America memorialize the 2007 ELCA Churchwide Assembly to reaffirm that the 1993 bishops’ statement as endorsed by the ELCA Churchwide Assembly in 2005 does not approve the “official” blessing of homosexual relationships, which includes any blessing for which approval is given by a synod or congregation; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Lower Susquehanna Synod memorialize the 2007 Churchwide Assembly to direct the Church Council and the Office of the Secretary to notify all ELCA synods, pastors, and congregations that they must refrain from public blessings of same-sex unions until after the 2009 Churchwide Assembly.
