Another excellent comment and report by Dr. Seibold.   

Mr. Abbott suggests that we should not "make the issue about contrived structures of church governance. It is about the Bible."  Perhaps he meant to write, "It is about different interpretations of the bible.  No one's interpretation of the bible should control how other members of a faith community follow their interpretation of the bible. "  Could that be what he would have written if he had thought about it for a bit?