text: Interesting reference, Warren, to the RCC hospitals seeming duplicity in taking advantage of laws that conflict with Catholic doctrine. How is that relevant to whether Adventist hospitals should claim an ERISA exemption when it comes to funding pensions? Try as I may, I cannot lay my finger on the SDA FB that addresses this issue. 
  
  On the larger issue of intellectual consistency, one of the signs of maturity is the ability to recognize that "double standards" often exist primarily in our own eyes, when we refuse to see the issue on a higher level of abstraction where the contradiction might dissolve. I could claim that SCOTUS justices don't really believe in the supremacy of the Constitution because they tend to cite their own prior opinions and interpretations more than the Constitution. This would be a foolish oversimplification. 
  
  I understand the headache that Sola Scriptura has been for SDAs. But authoritative use of EGW is not proof of intellectual inconsistency.