CLIFFORD: Depending upon one's age, The Episcopal Church (TEC) today is clearly not your father or grandfather's Church (and in those days, TEC was unmistakably male dominated).

George Carey, an evangelical, was tolerated and manipulable; Rowan Williams was loved and adored because his Hegelian worldview coincided with theirs and because he refused to be definitive about anything of substance. The reigning archbishop, Justin Welby offers up a weak version of evangelical conviction posing no threat to their imperial decisions.

Welby's mild rebuke only highlights the deeper reality of a divided Communion, and while he knows this, he won't face the implications of it and he just let's things pass. He won't, for example engage in any further discussion about homosexuality because he knows people who are gay and feels their pain. That is an abrogation of his authority and in direct opposition of what Scripture teaches about the nature of sin and the Scriptures equally clear call for repentance.

After debating A054 in the morning session of the House, the bishops met in closed session, and passed the Resolution in the afternoon before considering Resolution A036, which makes the church’s marriage Canon 1.18 gender neutral.