The author of the opinion, Harry Blackmun, had been the general counsel of the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota. His 2d grade classmate, chief justice Warren Burger assigned him to write the opinion but according to the folklore that has emerged, William Brennan, the only Roman Catholic justice then on the Court, was the brains behind the decision: selling the six other justices in the 7-2 majority on the medieval notion of the "quickening" of a fetus.

3. The husband is not the savior of the wife in any way. Ephesians 5 says that he is to love his wife as Christ loves the church -- and then the REST of it is about Jesus. If you want to know how to love your wife, learn about Jesus and how he loves his church. Read the Song of Songs and Philippians 2 for a start.

As I have said, true catholicity demands that there should be a way of deciding on matters which affect all in such a way that the decisions are universally applicable. The radical doctrine of Provincial autonomy has made authentic conciliarity impossible in the Anglican Communion, with the highest authorities repeatedly declaring that there is now no way in which such catholicity can be ensured.

"It's very difficult seeing the church decline as it has in recent years," Love said. "Not only the Episcopal Church, but the mainline denominations ... to see all the things going on, and to not be able to stop it."

According to Love, he began to have problems with the Episcopal Church in 2015, the year the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage with the Obergefell v. Hodges case.