All that talk of the "other" plays up alleged white superiority and downplays, indeed downgrades, all talk of the need for the "other" to know the salvific work of Him whom we despise and long to destroy.

In an e-mail sent to a number of orthodox Anglican Archbishops, VOL was told that if the US Presiding Bishop shows up in Dublin next year, they would not attend. At the HOB meeting in Phoenix, Arizona, this week the Presiding Bishop said, when asked at a press conference if she would attend, gave an unequivocal yes.

Furthermore, O'Neill is only allowing rectors into the diocese as priests-in-charge. The only new rectors are, by and large, lesbians, VOL was told. For the record, this is reminiscent of the late Bishop of Washington, Ronald H. Haines who hired any number of gays and lesbians as priests, but in his eight-year tenure hired no heterosexual white males.

"Certainly we believe this sudden conclusion was Divine intervention. The Lord has blessed our congregation in so many ways, purging resentment and contempt for our persecutors from our hearts, instilling us with a renewed spirit of mission and outreach, and giving us a growing and deepening love for our Lord and one another. We have experienced a wonderful flourishing of faith under Bishops Minns and Bena in the midst of this intense and expensive persecution."