Sandy:
You said:"On the contrary, I think that his appointment is evidence that the rifts and divisions in the convention that the anti-SBC and ex-SBC aristocrats love to speculate about (because they have so much time on their hands and they don't have anything else to do) are not anywhere near as serious, or have anything close to the effect on denominational life that they would like to see. First, Fred Luter's election, and now this appointment, provide clear evidence that the SBC that exists in Leonard's prognostications is not the reality."
The part about having so much time on our hands and nothing else to do is just a bunch of hooey. Those of us that invested our lives in the SBC and have seen it disentigrating before our eyes for years now--do not expect us not to give our opinions.
You and others just can not see the emperor is not wearing any clothes. You and others may just need to get your eyes checked.