[polymuser]

Not very heartening. A razor-thin (50.7 percent) majority was against ordaining gays, and blessing gays is now effectively the predicted 'local option' for pastors (leaving a congregation and its council to battle a leftist pastor in a conservative congregation). As long as Hanson's running the show, there'll be no return to orthodoxy.

I'm left wondering, what ended up being this CWA's recommendation for wording of the social statement for CWA 2007? Or will that be Sexuality Task Force II's job?

[lightman]

By action of the Church Council, affirmed by the Assembly, the Sexuality statement is delayed until 2009. Members of the Task Force are charged with that responsibility, although many are expressing weariness. Bp. Margaret Payne (New England Synod) has resigned as Chair of the Task Force; it is not yet clear whether she has also resigned from the Task Force itself.

Four more years of more of the same.