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Refer Madness
Abstract: ELCA invaded by weed with roots in Hell!
The ELCA Memorials Committee, which has the daunting task of organizing memorials from all the ELCA Synods so the Churchwide Assembly can act on them efficiently and knowledgeably, has issued its report for the 2007 Churchwide assembly.
Faced with memorials from 21 synods to end discrimination against partnered gay clergy, the 14-member memorials committee voted (unanimously? probably not, but no one needs to know that, do they?) that these memorials be referred to the Task Force for ELCA Studies on Sexuality, urging the task force to consider this as "information" for its ongoing, ongoing, ongoing, ongoing "discernment and deliberation" for a possible social statement on sexuality in 2009, maybe.
Apparently the rationale for referral is that policy change "should" be based on a social statement so there's something for the policy to be consistent with.
Did you know that the ELCA's discriminatory policy was enacted from the top down, that is, without the approval of a churchwide assembly, and with virtually no concern for the creation of a social statement to justify discriminating against pastors in same-sex partnerships?
