Well, the vote on substituting the minority report for the main motion has been taken and it lost 227/240.

If you wanted to make this a true left/right split the more conservative commissioners would be siding with the minority report and opposing the study that includes a lot of other names and descriptions of the members of the Trinity besides the traditional Father/Son/Holy Spirit or even Creator/Redeemer/Comforter language.

I’m not ready to declare this a true bell weather for the rest of the assembly but it is interesting.  It has been my observation on matters like this that a lot of centrists will go with a study paper like this were a lot of effort has been put into it.  This is not where they will draw a line.  But it looks like it could be very close (no, that is not new news) when they get to PUP in the ecclisiology report, probably tomorrow.

This was the first piece of business requiring strong parlimentary proceedure, speakers for and against, and electronic voting.