"Since the only way to make money pouring into the GC's coffers is to maintain the Unions'status quo, nothing will happen after one year."

You are probably correct, George. Church politics to defend and protect "the church" is the highest agenda and motive that our leaders follow.

It is a false motive that leads to a false conclusion. The church is first, and Christ and the bible are last. Thus unity is the only final goal, and if they can pretend to do all this with some credibility based on some biblical principle, then they can deceive the church community.

The exact parallel to the early church apostasy that placed unity and the church above the bible. It will take some time for church members to figure this out, and many never will. But a few will eventually "see the light" while the majority will always be loyal to "The church has said."

Ignorance of the bible allows all this to happen.