The Human Sexuality Statement needed a 2/3rds vote to pass. The vote: 66.67% for....33.33% against. No kidding. It could not have been closer. Since it was an electronic vote, and is automatically considered a division of the house vote. It stands. This is utterly amazing. I was a witness to a leader of the CORE movement who was holding court after the vote. Streams of CORE (a conservation ELCA group very much against these considerations) members with their buttons on were busy in conversation and deliberation.
More reflections tomorrow morning. Tomorrow we start the quasi committee of the whole on the Ministry recommendations (all of which need only a majority).
Wow.
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