Lutheran Ping, please.
Hard to say what effect this (if true) will have on the ELCA. There has been a tendency to follow the lead of ECUSA but lacking the global backlash of other Lutheran bodies this might embolden the revisionists to become the new "standard bearers".
Too late for me. Bishop Anderson sealed the deal for me when he wrote me back an email saying (re: Ordination of homosexuals) that we who don't agree are to "live in obedience under protest".
I am doing just that by excommunicating myself from the ELCA.
I think this would have the effect of slowing them down. I have no doubt we'll continue to study the issue until "leadership" gets the result they want, at which time it will be declared settled.
The homosexual lobby has begun a well-financed and highly organized campaign within ELCA to achieve the same goals. If ECUSA backs off, it will only cause the ELCA homosexuals to redouble their efforts, as they will become the new "front" in the internecine war against Christianity.