Rereformation

I found this interesting, about the controversy in the Anglican Church about their getting involved in gay marriage and consecrating gay bishops:

"If conservatives continue to press for the exclusion of the Episcopal Church, transgress provincial boundaries and decide not to attend the Lambeth Conference in 2008, they will take responsibility for provoking a tear in the Anglican Communion and will have withdrawn from the our fellowship," Coward said.

Tearing the Anglican Communion? Reminds me of what John Derbyshire once said about the trauma of losing one's religion. Paraphrasing, it may be significant in some religious traditions, but the fall from Anglicanism is like stumbling out of a first floor window.

Perhaps I'm being too harsh on the Angies, but can you really tell me these children of the "Reformation" seriously concern themselves with busting up any Communion. Isn't that their reason for existing? Disagree with the Godly authority, ignore it and make your own up. If one reformation is good, a second must be even better.