Not necessarily. If you take the 'strict veneration' approach presumably what happens is that you end up 'euhumerising' (sp?) the gods, in order to worship them as historical personages, to wit saints. This is going to generally require a bit of distortion (from the theist POV) of the myth, which probably is going to have the immediate effect of making it less effective. If one's henotheist approach is more 'mixed', this effect is likely offset, though almost certainly that will lead to weaker/less sorcery.
Of course, all this talk about the 'correct' mode of worshipping a given entity is all very well and good, and Gloranthans hardly have a Gold Standard for determining what this is. You might assume that because Orlanth has been worshipped in a mostly-theistic, part-animist manner for a millennium or two that that's the best means, and you might even be right, but I'd suggest it's impossible to know for sure. Thus the possibility does exist that a 'new' or 'wrong' mode of worshipping an existing entity could turn out to be as effective as, or possible even moreso that, the traditional ones.
Cheers,
Alex.
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