Two days early, the proposal was released.

Not much changed in the plan itself except that it is a plan and not a proposal. The Q&A had some extensive rewriting. The comment that appalled me last week has been changed.

It seems that my church will sign on. This makes me sad.

Personally, I’m just tired. I pray Psalm 53 and take comfort from Psalm 37. No matter, though. Unless a miracle happens, not much will change and it feels like we are returning to our vomit. Ultimately, we did not change our doctrine, barely modified our practices, retained our peculiar vocabulary and maintained an uneasy practice of being the one true denomination.

We blew our big chance.

Some have thought this might be a reaction to Kip. It just might be. I mean, we are trying to do what Kip does through legislation. The difference is that we seem to require committees while he works through his magnetic personality. Considering that one of the Gang of Nine has said publicly that he hopes to stamp out anyone that speaks against ‘the church, whether it is Kip or some blogger’, there may be other agendas at work.

Conspiracy theories, though hold no attraction for me in this matter. The only agenda is trying to get back something of what we once had. I believe we never truly had unity, thus returning to a form of what we were will not bring it back, either. I applaud the effort, but disagree with the execution.

It’s an overreaction, plain and simple. If our present state is a result, as the Gang of Nine affirm, of an overreaction, the answer is not a severe course correction. Growing up running a couple of boats, I know what happens when you oversteer, the boat capsizes. I fear the same will happen here. (Granted the entire arguement is invalid from them and me- the pendulum swing so often quoted is a logical fallacy of the middle ground.)

Even if I am wrong about this, this is not what I want spiritually for my family or me. More later.