We have a long tradition of being a publisher of somewhat progressive stances on theological and social issues, so it is not out of character for us to do this.
In what I'm sure is a completely unrelated development:
Last year a string of theologians left their Protestant denominations for the church of Rome. The list includes three Lutherans—Reinhard Hütter and Bruce Marshall, theologians at Methodist seminaries (Duke and Southern Methodist), and Mickey Mattox, a Luther scholar at Marquette; two Anglicans—Rusty Reno of Creighton and Douglas Farrow of McGill University; and a Mennonite—Gerald Schlabach of St. Thomas University. All six all have strong connections to mainline institutions, and several were involved in official ecumenical conversation at high levels.
