Thanks, Julie, for that reply. I've liked the Conservative services for the most part that I've been to, but the high point was the one in Key West, where the rabbi excoriated Bill Clinton during his sermon.
Sadly, since then, arsonists recently burned the Key West synaguoge to the ground, the meeting place of a congregation over one hundred years old, one of America's oldest Jewish communities.
I'll have to ask my old buddy, who belongs there, if they ever found the perpetrators.
This is a terrible desecration. My own rabbi said to me that if the Conservative movement allows gay rabbis, he will become Orthodox. True conservative Judaism and orthodoxy are very, very similar.