Why The "Laudable Practice" Blog Is Not On My Blogroll

While the blogger is a fine writer and thinker, I found that I could abide, inter alia, neither his occasional anti-Tractarian pomposity nor his ardent embrace of an Old High Church theology that constitutes a rejection of the patristic mind and the Great Tradition just as surely as did the Edwardine theology, however much both would protest to the contrary.  But today I discovered another reason I won't add him to my list of Anglican blogs:

Why I support the ordination of women: a High Church reflection

Let's face it.  If you're clergy in the Anglican Communion, this is where you will end up or will be forced to leave or at least marginalized.  Fr. R.R. Tarsitano put it deftly here:

Those familiar with the work of writer John O’Sullivan will know his famous “O’Sullivan Rule,” which simply states that any organization that is not essentially and doctrinally conservative will eventually become liberal. This rule explains why organizations like the Boy Scouts of America and the American Association of Retired People are becoming more and more politically progressive. Unfortunately, the same holds true for the all too human organizations we call churches. All Christian churches should be fundamentally conservative because the Bible expressly claims that the greatest revelatory moment in human history happened 2,000 years ago—we are a people always looking to the past to understand the present and the future (basically the definition of a good conservative); however, in this present age—an age in which all new things are deemed good or useful—a church must be radically committed to the conservation of the apostolic deposit or it will trade it away to be last on the firing line. A church is either progressing or conserving, there is no neutrality in the 21st-century war between evil and good.

No room in my blogroll for any Anglican blog that is not "essentially and doctrinally conservative."