I think the conservatives must be believing the spin. We're at least six years away from consenting to any possible future Anglican Confederation. The proposal hasn't even been written and we don't even know if a majority of provinces will ultimately be interested. We don't even know if the CofE, being and established church, can put itself under this kind of a confederation. Perhaps Parliament won't be interested.

In the meantime, it looks as if virtually all of our bishops will be invited to Lambeth. The real question is will the conservatives have the patience to wait for the Confederation to emerge? Given the jump of Christ Church, Plano, I think maybe not.

By "conservative" do you mean those who actually believe the word of God? I guess in that case you can count me a conservative. It seems to me that 30 years of the increasing acceptance of homosexuality as being merely a "lifestyle choice" is a remarkably short time in which to throw out the moral teaching about same of the bible. I have not lived a very holy life and have only in the past 10 years accepted the Lord, so I can tell you as one who should be predisposed to the more liberal (for lack of a better word) view of life that homosexuality from all that I have seen first hand is still the same sin and abomination to God--if for no other reason than for its roots in child abuse. The sexualization of emotional abandonment is the prime characteristic of the "gay" "choice". One need look no further than Bishop Robinson's example to find the profound selfishness at the heart of the matter.

I suspect that the "gay" issue is not the only matter that seperates the brave new Episcopal Church of America from biblical Christianity. I have seen the erosion of Christian theology in the North and its profoundly deliterious effect upon not only church attendance but in the over all dumbing down of the Christian faith across the board and throughout the community. As a born-again Christian I often think "thank heavens for the Catholics", because other than the independent churches they seem to be the only group who have any intellectual history and gravitas about these issues. And I notice they're not caving in. Moreover, attendance at their churches is up. Think there just might be a connection there?