The Northeastern Iowa Synod Council has passed two resolutions in response to the Churchwide Assembly’s votes. The first calls upon the ELCA Church Council to reject and work to overturn the Sexuality Statement and the Recommendations on Ministry. The second affirms the votes of the NE Iowa Synod Assemblies of recent years, stating that the ‘bound conscience’ of the synod regards the 1990 Vision and Expectations for Rostered leaders to be the norm for the synod and rejects any new Vision and Expectations based on the votes taken at the 2009 Churchwide.
The NE Iowa Synod takes the rhetoric of the Churchwide Assembly at its word, that the ‘bound conscience’ of synods is to be respected. It remains to seen if this will be the case or if the present rumbling from Chicago will not allow synods to have a ‘bound conscience’. If it does not allow a synod to have a ‘bound conscience’ then the basis for the votes taken at Churchwide are suspect, built on a fiction the ELCA cannot or will not honor.
Pr. Marshall Hahn deserves our thanks for his work bringing these resolutions to the NE Iowa Synod Council. The resolutions may be found at these links:
Call to Faithfulness 
I discovered this website and the links to your November meeting. I truly appreciate the opportunity to listen to your speakers. Our congregation will be discussing this issue at the annual meeting. After listening to these speakers I feel more educated and prepared to have an open mind and heart during that conversation. Well presented.