User:Anglican layman

By both definitions specified on this site Wikipedia.org I am indeed a Layman. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Layman states "A "layman" or "layperson" is a person who is a non-expert in a given field of knowledge. The term originally meant a member of the laity, i.e. a non-clergymen, but over the centuries shifted in definition." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laity also states "In religious organizations, the laity comprises all persons who are not in the clergy." I am also, not only by birth and baptism, but also by choice, a confirmed Anglican. In the Anglican church and tradition, according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laity#Anglicanism "In Anglicanism, the term "laity" refers to anyone who is not a bishop, priest, or deacon, that is, the fourth order of ministers in the Church. In the Anglican tradition, all baptised persons are expected to minister in Christ's name. The orders of ministry are thus laymen, deacons, priests, and bishops." And thus, I am that Anglican Layman. Beyond the obvious religious aspects of my life, I tend to be right-of-centre politically, reactionary and a zionist. In religion, I am of course, a judeo-christian and a broadchurch Anglican. I am broadchurch because I think it reflects the via media or middle way typical of Anglican thinking and also incorporates - and tolerates - the best of low church and high church practices. While I can accept the "sola scriptura" or "scripture alone" doctrine of the low church, I cannot accept anything that strays from the sound doctrine that our church is built on, nor depart from Hooker's "scripture, tradition and reason." On the other hand, while a sung, incense-filled high mass is one of the most spectacularly beautiful services I could ever witness or hear, too many of our founders have died for our faith and denomination at the hands of the romish church, for me to ever favour uniting with the Roman Catholic church as some high church members secretly and openly desire. I must say like my hero, Archbishop Thomas Cranmer, "And as for the pope, I refuse him, as Christ's enemy, and Antichrist with all his false doctrine." Even so, the tolerance of not only the broadchurch but also the "via media" and the middle way, should be careful not to step beyond the borders of sin, for although we are guided by reason, we are also shaped by tradition and more than that, scripture. For this reason I am against the ordination of homosexuals and indifferent to - ie., of no distinct opinion regarding - the ordination of women: two things which are now disrupting and dividing the Anglican Communion.