The glass is half full.

Of course, most of us are disappointed that recommendation two passed with all the ambiguity attached and that there were so many people who supported recommendation three.

There is reason to celebrate, however.

This does not come from me, but is a very abbreviated summary of what Roy Harrisville said to the Solid Rock Lutheran and Word Alone folks tonight.

In seventeen years of the ELCA the traditionalists have never gotten a win at CWA. This week we won two, or one and a half if you want to be a pessimist. We were able to remove language in rec. 2 that mentioned ministry to same sex couples and changed it to all people. There is nothing in that recommendation that mentions blessing same sex unions, even though some people will take it to mean that. We stopped the motion to allow for ordination of practicing homosexuals. We stopped it! We stopped the juggernaut! That has not happened, ever, in the history of the ELCA that we were able to stop the liberal train in the area of sexuality. They will not give up, but neither will we and now we are more organized and are learning to work together.

Be watching for a new organization that will serve as an umbrella for all the confessional/traditionalist organizations in the ELCA.

---Katie