More important,ㅡadverbial phrase

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In June 200, the Supreme Court upheld a ban upholding the Boy Scouts' right to exclude gay troop leaders. After the Court's decision, several corporation, companies, and organizations that had once sponsored Scout activities stopped all funding to the organization. Furthermore, several school districts around the nation refused to sponsor any Boy Scout meetings or activities. To make sure that Boy Scouts get the message, one school board member spelled out the board's implicit message: Despite the Supreme Court's approval, the Scout's policy was discriminatory and therefore would not be tolerated. There was no comment from the Boy Scout leadership. More important, the Boy scouts have shown no sign of rethinking their decision to born the presence of gays in the Scouts.
[Source: Reading for Results Ninth Edition by Laraine Flemming]
I'd like to know why the adjectival phrase "more important" is used as adverbial phrase here.
Thank you in advance for your help.

Mister Micawber · Accepted Answer

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Usage note

Both 'more important' and 'more importantly' occur at the beginning of a sentence in all varieties of standard English: 'More important (or More importantly), her record as an administrator is unmatched.' Today, 'more importantly' is the more common, even though some object to its use on the grounds that 'more important' is an elliptical form of “What is more important” and that the adverb 'importantly' could not occur in such a construction. 'More importantly' probably developed by analogy with other sentence-modifying adverbs, as 'curiously', 'fortunately', and 'regrettably'.

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