[blue-duncan]

“They don’t for instance have one branch with gay priest another with gay marriages a third which sends charity money to fund 3rd world abortions etc.”

Of course they do. You have one branch that is a member of the World Council of Churches and another that belongs to the National Council of Churches, both organizations supporting gay priests and abortion.

You have two Russian Orthodox denominations here in this country. Are they just personality sects?

[kawaii]

You have two Russian Orthodox denominations here in this country. Are they just personality sects?

You apparently don't get out much there is One Russian Church with canonical Jurisdiction over North America.

[kawaii]

You have one branch that is a member of the World Council of Churches and another that belongs to the National Council of Churches, both organizations supporting gay priests and abortion.

The Orthodox churches which sit in on these meetings are there to witness against homosexuality and other anti Christian behaviors and do so regularly while the protestant majority of both rally for them. There is nothing in their actions or observational role that contradicts precisly what Christ charged Christians to do which is to spread his word.

[kawaii]

You have two Russian Orthodox denominations here in this country. Are they just personality sects?

There are no such things as denominations of Orthodoxy. There is one Canonical Orthodox church which is complete union on doctrine, and in communion with itself. OCA folks can and do go back and forth between Moscow Patriarchate and ROCOR churches. As do ROCOR and MP folks. As do ROCOR and MP clergy. They are all subordinate to the Patriarch of Moscow who could dispense with their sepeareate administrative duties in an instant.