When rules no longer matter and are meant only to be changed

The New Jersey Synod Assembly voted to "accept" Resolution II submitted by Assistant to the Bishop Gladys Moore, a copy of the Metro NY resolution which was ruled by the Church Council of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America to be unconstitutional. The unconstitutionality of it was argued on the floor but it was approved anyway, approximately 230 to 170.

In the words of the person who passed the news along, "The message this sends is that "rules" no longer matter. Guess we knew that all along - but this surely lays it out in black and white. Could not resist giving you the scoop."