Be careful what you wish for

http://kraalspace.blogspot.com/2008/02/be-careful-what-you-wish-for.html

[The Kraalspace] 11 Feb 2008--Remember the Sorting Hat scene in 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone', where Harry is finally is sorted into Gryffindor? Everyone wanted 'the famous Harry Potter' in THEIR house, but he finally takes his seat amid jubilant chants of "We got Potter! We got Potter!" by triumphant Gryffindors. Of course, none of them knew Harry, just his reputation, but they all wanted the cachet and the reflected glory of counting a celebrity as one of their own.

Something similar has been happening in The Episcopal Church. Despite countless disappointments and sly betrayals, conservatives still kept clinging to the hope that the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, would somehow eventually come down on their side. The collapse of the fantasy of a Canterbury-led charge to restore the Episcopal Church should have been complete at the House of Bishops meeting in New Orleans in September. Indeed, after that, the movement to separate from the corrupt American church began to gather speed, despite the admonitions of the Enabler of Canterbury.