VOL: Sure, talk of sex is boring. We have been sexed to death in The Episcopal Church. It was the pansexualists who raised the issue in the first place with a small group of strident homosexuals demanding their place in the church without having to change their behavior. Yes, we are all sick of it, so why don't groups like Integrity and Changing Attitude end their campaign and stop badgering the church?

Paul writing to Timothy says in 1 Tim. 3:5, "If anyone does not know how to manage his own family, how can he take care of God's church?" (NIV)

The Archbishop thinks he can dodge a bullet on homosexuality, hoping to steer the Global South Primates away from the communion breaking issue and focus on other pressing hot button issues like poverty, violence, race and unemployment. However, the Global South Primates have given no indication that they will let him do that.

Surely an easy way out would be for the Archbishop to say: "I'm an evangelical Christian who believes that marriage can only be between a man and a woman. This is the firm teaching of the Church of England, as well as of the Roman Catholic and Eastern Churches. Therefore, while not wishing to stigmatize gay Christians, I cannot countenance blessing unions that are not sacramentally valid marriages." Apparently he cannot say that.

All the mainline Protestant denominations, including the Presbyterian Church USA, American Baptist Churches USA, the United Methodist Church, the Anglican Church, the United Church of Christ, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the Episcopal Church were the worst performers. It should be noted, however, that the Anglican Church is the newest, youngest Church on the block and is growing rapidly.