http://www.virtueonline.org/portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=9167
[VirtueOnline] 10 Oct 2008--There are now four distinct groups of North American Episcopalians/Anglicans.
The first group is those who are deeply committed to The Episcopal Church, come hell or high water. These are institutionalists, life-long Episcopalians often with deep family roots going back several generations. Nothing will move them. Whatever it is they believe in (and it may not be very much), for them the Episcopal Church is THEIR church and they will not be moved from it regardless of anything that might issue forth from 815 2nd Avenue, NY or whatever sexual preference a bishop might choose.
They are Episcopalians to the end. They will live and die Episcopalians. They will be buried in the church graveyard either with a full headstone or simply in a columbarium. Many, if not most, do not have much of an inkling about what is going on in the Episcopal Church because their diocesan newspapers do not tell them anything. If they do, it will be the bishop’s spin on Lambeth, Robinson, GAFCON or an Anglican Church near them that is not like them.
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