Thanks, H.S., but a correction is in order:
It may have seemed as though I was in Orlando from the volume of posts and replies I offered, but no, I was on the home front the entire week; checking the latest posts on the American Lutheran Publicity Bureau www.alpb.org on-line forum and the almost real-time reporting offered by ELCA Department of Communications staff via Lutherlink.
The sexuality votes were a major skirmish but the greater battle was the hymnal. The revisionists, I fear, have lost the battle but won the war.
Thanks for the correction, lightman. I, too, could have sounded as if I were in Orlando, but chose deliberately to say I was not. I don't bother with LutherLink, but I was monitoring ALBP and several blogs, and was receiving e-mails from Solid Rock and from more private sources, including orthodox Christians on the scene in Orlando.
aberaussie said that there was at least one other Freeper there, so I assumed that it was you. I respect the right of the other Freeper to remain anonymous, since I do the same in order to separate my FR posting from my off-screen life. However, I am just as pro-Serbian, etc. in my real life as on FR, so what you see is what you get.
ELCA Freepers should know what the CWA actually authorized with respect to the hymnal. It is a process, not a particuar text. The Office of the Presiding Bishop is to conduct a "liturgical review" of the hymnal, prior to its publication in the fall of 2006. Therefore, ELCA Freepers and others should address their comments to Bishop Hanson. This especially works if you've had any experience using the RW resources, so know what you are talking about. They may be afraid enough of defections from the ELCA and low hymnal sales to listen to us. Even if they do not, this is part of the resistance to the hymnal that is starting in September.
I just sent my comments to his office and to the RW committee. They were based on on my experience with the RW resources and of worshiping as part of an Orthodox community. As I do with many communications to ELCA national and synodical offices, I did not use the word "Serbian" in my letter--why stir up even more controversy? However, in local Lutheran circles, I am well-known for my Serbian Orthodox connections, and am very proud of them.