[SmithL]

This is a non-starter. The BoP realizes that there is strength in numbers, so they don’t want to lose these customers.

This says more about the synod than anything else.

[lightman]

This is a non-starter. The BoP realizes that there is strength in numbers, so they don’t want to lose these customers.

Aye.

It would take more than one "Memorial" from one Synod to enact a change in policy.

This says more about the synod than anything else It says that the Synod, it's Bishop, and its Committee on Memorials could stand some serious remedial catechesis on the Eighth Commandment.

The "Whereas" sections overflow with slander against other Lutheran bodies.