As opposed to you, Mr. Theology?
I think he has single handedly convinced me that lay deacons are a very, very, very bad idea.
There is no such thing as a "lay deacon".
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you say tomato and I say "spawn of hell". Oh, sorry, uncharitable of me. Whatever you may call yourself, I will just call you Brother Goofus. And I think that it is fair to say that I have as much respect for your office as I do for lay ministers, which is to say none.
Permanent Deaconite. We did fine without it for 1900 some odd years...it looks to me like we could do with out it for another 2000 or so.
But hey, that's just me. I don't have a "vested" interest in the crazy scheme. But it seems to me the only thing it provides is a pulpit to theological illiterate, morally obtuse, pompous grandstanders. Alas, I weep for the Church.
I got a feeling all your caterwauling about Tom Delay is just guilt projection.
Yes, Mr. Theology, will do. Of course I expect that you will speak my name with the requisite obsequiousness due my title from hence forward, deacon.