Saturday, February 21, 2015

So What Do They Have In Mind?

Of course, Kremlinology is a waste of time with the ACA, although from everything I read, the factors that led to impaired judgment among senior Politburo cadres probably apply as well to the House of Bishops. But let's assume for a moment that all the updates to the web pages that say who's what are just random chatter -- somebody just felt like cleaning things up a couple weeks ago, but maybe that was a little much, so they're sorta-kinda putting things back, or maybe not.

That won't fly. This takes effort. Not everyone can update a web page, especially when they've had a few, which is my favored explanation for all the errors on the St Mary's page. They're doing this for a reason, however obscure it may be. My guess is they're rattled. Another court date looms in the coming week, and it's not likely to go well. St Mary's people will attend, and they'll have their eyes out for the state's attorney in the hall. If the state's attorney hasn't heard of the appeals court's opinion before then, he certainly will at the time.

In the real world, as opposed to the alternate universe of "continuing Anglicanism", the ACA's situation would be called a "crisis", which calls for crisis management. If I were the House of Bishops, I'd make a quick trip over to that Wikipedia entry. The fact is, Bishop Marsh, that people want to know what's going on in the ACA. You've asked your one potential information source, "Father" Stephen Smuts, not to post anything about the ACA. I have no idea why he's responded by basically posting zilch, but there you are. People, who naturally want information, are coming here, and they're getting it from friends and supporters of Fr Kelley and the St Mary's elected vestry.

I had over 3000 page views last month, about 100 per day. Lots of people visit here, clearly including Mrs Bush and some of your own stooges, because they correct errors on their web sites when they read about them here! Whatever the House of Bishops may think of this site, the fact is that opponents of the ACA are in full control of the information flow. The House of Bishops announced the passing of Tony Morello; it didn't say blip about Robin Connors. People came here for that information, and quite a few did.

This is yet another reason I don't expect the ACA to see 2016.

Bishop Grundorf, just bide your time. A substantial number of parishes will come over without the need for you to say another word to Marsh and Strawn.