"Reading the back-and-forth exchange between Kolo and x5452 must do anything but encourage Queen Beruthiel -- and she and her husband have already made up their minds! How is what appears to be anything but Orthodoxy to encourage others with all the infighting and re-engineering going to match words with deeds Orthodoxy makes claim to?"
Gee, Kosta, I didn't think X5452 and I were arguing anything. Did you, X? In all honesty, Kosta, the status of the OCA hasn't caused me to loose one wink of sleep in the last 35 years. Nor, apparently, does it cause problems for the SCOBA hierarchs.
As for ethnic exclusivity among Orthodox jurisdictions, none of it bothers me. As I have told you before, I'm quite comfortable among Arabs, Slavs, Greeks, even Ethiopians. I, like you, know what's going on in the Liturgy. If my local Orthodox parish was Serbian etc, that's where I would go. Would I personally miss hanging out with my fellow Greeks, sure (well, hanging out with Serbs or Lebanese is pretty much the same thing), but it wouldn't affect my faith. Same goes with hanging out with people in the OCA. As a matter of fact, I have a distant Irish cousin who is an OCA priest!
You misunderstood what at least I was speaking of with X, Kosta. You shouldn't be so suspicious of your Balkan brother, my friend! :)
We actually do travel to more distant church because of the Russian elements there...
There is an Antiochian church nearer to us, though (20 minutes vs 45).