tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3847211149012008703.post3634134672686858075..comments2023-11-03T04:50:42.128-05:00Comments on Confessional Gadfly: Every 500 years or soRev. Eric J Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17747919365522145094noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3847211149012008703.post-84417896968939162972009-08-19T10:16:46.445-05:002009-08-19T10:16:46.445-05:00I'm not so sure, though I think it is definite...I'm not so sure, though I think it is definitely something big in the Western church itself. Vatican II seemed to open the adiaphora floodgates first proposed in the Reformation and cut off the church from the idea that lex orandi est lex credendi was, whatever Prosper's original intent, the way the church has done theology and done worship: the medium is the message (and vice versa) just as actions speak louder than words.<br /><br />Someone once pointed out to me that the most high church, traditional parishes of the Episcopalian and Anglican churches tended to be very gay, sexually. This is true in NYC for the ironically named church of St. Mary the Virgin in Times Square.<br /><br />An Orthodox blogger of rather acidic wit once noted that it was his experience that 'the Western Rite makes you gay', whether in or outside of the Orthodox WR. Not sure I agree exactly, but there is some kernel of truth in there.123https://www.blogger.com/profile/14514075641944568806noreply@blogger.com