[Chemnitz]

This filtering of candidates is a neat tool for all mainline denominations to create a ministerium suited to them. Once accepted, it gives enormous power to anonymous people appointed by functionaries. These consultants may be crazier than bedbugs, but they are "outside experts" and immediately trusted.

The first generation of filters may do a good job in excluding people who should not be ministers. Later, all one has to do is question women's ordination or abortion as birth control and the interviewer's eyes will fill with tears. Goodbye seminary. In addition, similar tools are used to get rid of dissenting conservative seminary students. One scientist argued Creation successfully at a Lutheran seminary. The faculty voted unanimously to get rid of him.

[Notwithstanding]

Amen. This is why I am so concerned that non-Catholic conservative Christians would ever see that the current scandal as a reason to condemn Catholic doctrine or the Catholic rule of celibacy and an all-male ordained ministry.

Such a condemnation puts such critics in the same bed with the active homosexuals and feminazis who pretend to be Catholic.

] Any conservative Christian should be hopeful that this scandal will allow an ally in the culture war - the Catholic Church - can use this scandal as a means to purge out much of the rot.

It is sad that many folks see the splinter in my Church and are blind to the plank in their own.