I was at the 2007 CWA, I can assure you that the there was no change in policy. I can also tell you that the media are the ones who make it sound like there was - sexuality is a good headline. As Pastor Swensson writes, the vote for a change in policy will most likely come at the 2009 assembly.
You may have been at the CWA. But Pastor Eric Swensson, and I--and many others on this forum--are in the trenches in our congregations and synods, every day. We know--that even though technically there may have been "no change in policy", especially in liberal synods, there has been a DE FACTO change in policy for a long time, which was RATIFIED by that most dishonest vote at the CWA!!!!
If there has been "no change in policy", why is that sick, foppishly homosexual pastor our new conference dean? Why do we have a "bishop" who fawns all over him, to carry out whatever policies or resolutions he wants? And why do we have that anaxios "bishop" who says that we can have no dialogue with the Orthodox because "we don't agree with them about sexuality"? (My other parish is a Serbian Orthodox church, which is where my screen-name comes from. This ELCA "bishop" said that to my face, so I know that it is true!! And I understand very well what anaxios means!!!!)
You ELCA apologists can't get it through your thick, complacent skulls that we don't give a hoot if there technically has been "no change in policy", as long as gaysbians, feminazis, heretics, Biblical "contextualists", muslim-kissers, and Orthodox bashers are running all over us in our synods. And above all, I CAN'T STAND THE FEMINAZI/PEACENIK/HERETIC "ELW"!!!! In my area, there is no ELCA congregation that does not use it--or a homemade liturgy that is even worse!
Get it through your thick, complacent ELCA-apologist skull that people like Pastor Eric are talking about a new denomination. Look at that same URL, and see that he is not the only one. All these people were saying "you gotta stay in the ELCA" just a few months ago. And read his post--he says the same things that I do about the distress of being orthodox in liberal synods, like his and like mine.