In these situations I think it’s more that the secularizers are coming to terms with the net effects of their forebears’ heresies, and saying to themselves: You know what, we should get comfortable with and openly proclaim the implications of what this church was really about in the first place.
Looking it over again, I’m sorry if that comes off as harsh. But I have to ask some questions about the, uh, dynamics of these church-related disasters... like, why do people “queer” churches, how do they gain a foothold and when is there no turning back... I won’t go on about those things, but IMO a disaster like this usually exposes some aberrant organizational philosophy that was buried deeply in a sect’s belief structures all along; for example some churches have a belief that I myself do not share, in the feasibility of really being a church together when one is pre-committed to a certain subjectivism about religious matters.