Ah… where two or three are gathered, there WILL be politics.

Bishop Hanson got re-elected as presiding bishop on the 2nd ballot.Â? (He was 2 votes short on the first.)Â? I’m not amused because he’s a revisionist idiot (IMHO) but he’s also head of the Lutheran World Federation at the moment which is going to keep him (for the moment) from doing anything too stupid as pissing off the remainder of the world’s Lutherans is *NOT* a good thing to do.

All the social justice things passed (not even an issue in this church).Â? The same-sex marriage stuff is being sent to the sexuality taskforce which I’m not sure is entirely good because it seems like the taskforce’s job is simply to spin the changing of the social statement into something pretty.Â? (Basically, it’s a 50/50 split in the church which means that there is going to be pain and suffering in 2009 for at least half of the church with whatever comes out.)

The most amusing memorial/resolution/amendment/whatever was the whole adopting of the “Book of Faith: Lutherans Read the Bible”.Â? For a denomination that claims sola Scriptura, this should not be all that surprising that we actually, like, READ the Bible and, like, APPLY it.