Poor logic alert!
Why 1960? That wasn't even on the radar then. Why not choose 1948? 1928? 1876? 1780? Why not? Because 1960 just happened to be about when the Episcopal church peaked in terms of membership. The decline since was due to a number of factors, including a revisionist liturgy and womens' ordination (these two factors led to a tremendous decline and to the possibly unratified "Dennis Canon" in which parish property suddenly became diocesan property), later unqualified women bishops, and then most recently the homosexuals. And though I do not have the numbers, I suspect the decline has been even larger than declared here.
And the devil’s beat goes on and on. . .slide down and down and down some more. . .and we know where the final “down” ends up.
“Why 1960? That wasn’t even on the radar then.”
1960 is a pretty good starting point...the Greensboro lunch counter sit-ins were then...the birth of the Civil Rights era....and thus began the Presbyterian Church’s interest in opression and victimization...that interest has now become an obsession...they see it everywhere.