a 50% ‘balance of probabilities’ basis rather than ‘beyond reasonable doubt’ does not seem an ideal basis on which to decide matters which you have already decided are part of doctrine.

Kendall: Let us suppose that the synod refuses to sanction homosexual marriage. Will this decision have any effect on the larger debate in the larger world, or is this simply an unimportant decision by an unimportant religious minority? In short, is this a tempest in a teapot? It REALLY would be useful to see the synod’s role in a context larger than its own busy little world. LM

Larry #2
Accepting SSU or “homosexual marriage” (some would say there is a difference, but not me) as within the doctrine of the ACC would directly contradict the requests of the Windsor Report. So, it would be a “big thing”, more so than ecusa allowing individuals to decide on their own whether to individually do the same thing.

Interesting that Hutchison, who has vexed the Anglican Communion behind the lead of the Presiding Bishops of ECUSA/TEC for his entire tenure in office, is now belaboring process!  This suggests that he senses the victory of his erroroneous conceptions and merely wishes the formalities to be over.  I wonder he has a post - or anticipates a post - in the new thang communion of errors?  The irony of this remark is overwhelming.  So much for listening and dialogue and the Holy Spirit’s leading when the odour of victory is in the nostrils of man.  How God perceives it is, of course, another matter.