"Sexual minorities in Africa have become collateral damage to our domestic conflicts and culture wars as U.S. conservative evangelicals and those opposing gay pastors and bishops within mainline Protestant denominations woo Africans in their American fight," according to a groundbreaking investigation by Political Research Associates (PRA).

According to the Wikipedia editorial enforcers, the controversy has generally subsided, though in fact, several students and most alumni bitterly recall the "name change." The Sewanee administration still claims no change occurred to the institution's official name. Sewanee's own Identity Standards manual forbids usage of the new "Sewanee: The University of the South" name for usage with community, student, and alumni publications, but the rule is universally broken.

Dean Robert Munday, President of Nashotah House, noted the word games being played by the Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music. They struck "and design liturgies" from the final form of the resolution, he said.

"Even if only the word 'collect' had been used, it would have been sufficient to allow for the development of liturgies for same sex unions, because you can't collect something that does not exist."

SMITH: This current invitation is a bit different in that those going to Rome have been promised that they can maintain their Anglican ways (Prayer book, etc) and even have oversight by former Anglican bishops. Still those priests and bishops will be ruled by the Vatican.