PCABCO: Protecting Us from the Mechanized Horde

Reading in the PCA's Book of Church Order, I came across this gem:

50-2. The reading of the Holy Scriptures in the congregation is a part of the public worship of God and should be done by the minister or some other person.

"By the minister or some other person"? Essentially, it seems, their primary concern is a) that the Word be read and b) that it not be read either by animals or inanimate objects. After due consideration, I suppose this is a valid concern with the gradual increase in society's reliance upon technological improvement. In fact, the foresight of the PCA's authorship is remarkable when considering the dawning robot menace. We've got to have the structures in place to deny artificial intelligences the same rights and privileges that we ourselves enjoy. And I'm glad to see that my denomination has taken this problem well in hand.