Split Widens Over Gay Priest's Confirmation as Bishop

What I can't figure out about Gene Robinson and his supporters is how they can say that ordaining an openly gay bishop will help the Episcopal Church grow:

"Robinson said he values diversity within Anglicanism and hopes his critics will, too. He and other liberals contend that the church will grow by becoming more inclusive."

Has anyone been paying attention to the facts of the past 40 years in the Episcopal Church???? Something like a drop in membership from 3.5 million to 2.3 million since 1970?? The growth of any Christian group is with the real, the orthodox, the evangelical, the "old fashioned".


Of course, no article in this anti-Catholic rag would be complete without either outright bigotry or anti-Catholic nonsense:

"Unlike the Roman Catholic Church, where authority flows down from the Vatican, Anglicanism is a loose association of 38 national provinces that are largely autonomous."

This statement is nothing compared to the usual bigotry from this writer, just a generalized statement of a more complex thing-but most of the time the bigotry is blatant.