The great thing about Kerry's post is that it has come from Kerry herself rather than some persecuted 'outsider' defending their right to a voice on Avalon. What she says is philosophically sound.
Without this philosophy of inclusion Avalon and any other group or community could only function as a hierarchy operating in a closed mental box, yet thinking itself progressive and free.
She needed to say this because the defensive ego of Avalon could otherwise blind-side it into a groupthink mentality where it lumbers along on a dysfunctional road to nowhere. Unfortunately, all greatly concieved groups always end up like that. The USA is one of the saddest cases i know of. A great constitution trashed by egoic expediency and monopoly on power.
The great revolutionaries are always seen by the group as outsiders yet they are at it's heart challenging the group to raise their collective vision. Historically, many of them paid a terrible price for that. The willing sacrifice of principled "inventors and dissenters" is to surrender the need for status in the eyes of others and speak honestly when prompted from within.
Some in the group will always find personal status in the status quo. People in fringe groups are most susceptible to this problem (of comfortability in their beliefs) because they may believe that their status as "non-mainstream thinkers" makes them immune to blindness. Then there are those who will give up their autonomy of thought just to recieve a pat on the head from authority.
A major part of the success of community is for individuals to search ourselves so that we can get a handle on our own psychology and motives for the way we interact with each other and authority. All communities eventually fail because they are comprised of individuals who fail to do this. This basic psychological failure is usually preyed upon by dominant personalities who seek to structure communities that foster co-dependency and blind obedience rather than individuality and self-mastery. In such communities the rhetoric of freedom remains as a hollow shell which echos to the group it's shared illusions.
When deliberate, these attempts to misdirect communities can be crafty, merciless and are most often shielded behind "do - gooding" and "spirituality" for maximum 'cover'.
For one example of this see my take on the "crystal skull myth". At the following link you'll find a brief related comment (at post#25) then follow a 2nd link in that post to read my opinion on the "Skull myth" itself.
http://www.projectavalon.net/forum/s...php?p=77035#25
People find it easier to see the wolf when it's wooly clothing is getting old and transparent.
To be a new 'protestant' is more difficult.