It was bewildering and confusing, an orthodox rector told VOL. "Liberal rectors concluded that he would not take the diocese out of TEC and therefore would not go after him by appealing to Jefferts Schori or David Booth Beers, but a number of orthodox rectors, many of whom have sworn allegiance to the wider Anglican Communion are now weighing their options. I would not be surprised if a number of them decided to leave," the source said.

However, as an orthodox TEC bishop told VOL, the unity proposed by ACI theologians on the basis of mutual affection and diversity, but not doctrine, is not good news.

Lawrence may well propose that the Diocese of South Carolina be an orthodox diocese on the first level of the Anglican Communion - Rowan Williams' two levels idea, but not the second level, said the source.

Condemning as "flawed" Dr Williams's recent declaration that the way forward lay in a "twin-track" Anglican Communion, thirteen liberal groups revealed plans to bring same-sex blessings and gay ordination to England, as has happened in the Episcopal Church in the US. Their strategy will be to attempt to win the General Synod, the Church's governing body currently dominated by evangelicals, over to the liberal cause.

"Perhaps this leader has not read, marked, heeded and inwardly digested Romans 10:9, "because if you confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved." and a thousand other passages from the scriptures covering the same subject are there, just lookin' at ya."