"Question: If we ( conservatives) are ONLY 10%, as they say, then why are they so concerned..?
Obviously, their focus groups or real surveys are telling them to worry.
Also that recent lawsuit in the LA area that said the parish members owned the local church not the Diocese has them very scared.
Although I still consider myself an Episcopalian (baptised and confirmed), and though my Letters of Transmittal remain active by payment of pledge in my local parish, I have not attended a service in an Episcopal diocese since the summer of 2002. Consequently, if anyone actually POLLS the membership, I cannot be counted.
One wonders what the proportions would be if intentionally "dormant" and "absent" Episcopalians were surveyed.