At the last General Convention in Salt Lake City, following the passage of gay marriage in the Church, he was heard to cry in the House of Bishops, "It is finished!" seeing himself, once again, the martyr being sacrificed on the phallic cross of his desires and of his own making. He has achieved what no bishop (not even the Borgia popes succeeded in doing) has done -- denying the creed and still holding onto his job and pension.

Part of the answer lies in the Episcopal Church's definition of mission -- it is all about issues....the list is endless and indicates a complete loss of transcendence and supernatural faith. The loss of that faith has resulted in an immanentalism which has led to a complete emptying of faith in the vast majority of Episcopalians.

With almost Blitzkrieg like speed the Episcopal Church rolled over, in the name of inclusivity, diversity, gender differentiation, emotion, felt pain, pluriform truths, and a headstrong gay culture that yelled hatred and homophobia at anyone who dared oppose the sexual zeitgeist.

The new Assisted Dying Bill would allow patients -- thought to have no more than six months to live and who had demonstrated a "clear and settled intention" to end their lives -- to be prescribed a lethal dose of drugs on the authority of two doctors.

It also includes extra safeguards introduced by Peers during discussion of Lord Falconer's bill giving a High Court judge a role in any future system of assisted dying.