BOOMER ASCENSION TO AUTHORITY
(Friday) Terry Mattingly's column this week notes the ascension of baby boomers to ecclesiastical authority. And even though they're now gray hairs they're still acting like boomers.

As a rule, this generation trusts its feelings and seeks truth through personal experience, which means ancient doctrines may be ignored or redefined. The final authority is the individual believer or, perhaps, a movement of like-minded individuals. Boomers are pro-choice and pro-change about nearly everything, as long as they are the ones doing the choosing and changing.

The ultimate boomer sin — perhaps the only remaining sin — is saying that some old law or dogma can prevent people from doing whatever they want to do. Boomers rarely tolerate people they believe are being intolerant.