I agree with what I believe Mr. Ted Wilson is saying from his inaugural - that some of the outside churches have a different approach to christianity than some of the conservative SDAs - but I differ in the reasons. Too often "conservative" SDAs have equated support for George Bush or conservative political candidates and "issues" as being the same thing as morality and christian ethics - when this is not so - but in fact moral compromise. Look at many of the conservative SDAs - they are no more honest, purer, or more beholden to the 10 commandments than the next person.
When I think of a Christian - I think of someone who is beholden to a certain level of conduct - the 10 commandments and other things specified in the bible. But what I found in the Adventist Church is that listenining to "gospel" music has been more a crime, rather htan whether or not one bears false witness or not, fornicates or does not, exploits others etc. Dishonesty and deception also play a crucial role in painting progressives and progressivism in a dishonest light as necessarily more immoral than the conservative movement.
When SDA Pastors are involved in Genocides, I think it is a fallacy to perpetuate the notion that the threat to Adventism is not within the church from what has come to be an Adventist ethos and way of life, but is only primarily from the outside from persons who support progressive issues such as morality concerning issues such ethnic groups, etc. I find it interesting how some conservative "adventists" who call themselves leaders are so determined to coursen the religious discourse with political terminology and insist on rubbisshing progressivism although progressivism has been conserned with many good ideals, while estolling conservativism although conservatism has been affiliated with promoting injustice and disparities in the way persons from different ethnic groups have been treated.