Traditional Anglican ping, continued in memory of its founder Arlin Adams. Ms. Muriel seems to have an active imagination, which appears to be causing her considerable concern. I suspect however, that her ominous hint about muffling the laity is simply bear-baiting: had the laity actually been consulted during the late unpleasantness, the clergy could never have gone so far as they did. So, the laity are likely to have more of a voice, should conservatives gain control, than they ever had while ultra-liberals held sway.
Of course, that all assumes that ECUSA and ACCanada will even pay attention to being shunned.
We'll just let the 'we voluntarily decided not to vote' misstatement pass. It's not nice to point out when someone is whining.
In Christ,
Deacon Paul+
When I read, then reread this sentence, it sounded awfully familar, like I'd heard it often, and quite recently......Then it hit me; Howard Dean's description of the Republican party....
Ecusa was thrown out and then invited to plead their case.
Oh, bosh! Along with the gaysbian malarkey, the revisionist package includes feminazi "liturgies" and hymnals, denial of Christ as the only way of salvation, the Resurrection, the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist, etc., total anarchy in biblical interpretation, celebrity heretics like Spong, neo-pagan "priests", and a cockeyed pneumatology that says that to find the Spirit, you go out in the world to find "where the action is", or you see what they "prophetic" gaysbians, feminazis, and other revisionists say. This applies to the ECUSA, the ELCA, and several other "mainline" churches.
The revisionist wings of the ECUSA and the ELCA are gnostics, not real Christians. The isolation of these gnostic clubs from the Body of Christ is well-deserved!!!!