The billboard, by its appearance and content so outraged Fr. Steven J. Kelly, SSC, rector of St. John's that he contacted diocesan headquarters and complained bitterly to the bishop. "God is NOT mother!" he told Bishop Wendell N. Gibbs Jr.

In an interview Bennison bizarrely at first insisted the report recommended a reconciliation process. "They do recommend a process of reconciliation and remediation," he declared. "It's a process I continue to hope everyone will engage with and I continue to hope for remediation."

Little, who recently gave an interview to Christianity Today, "Living with the Tares" and why he was staying in the ECUSA did not mention even once the possibility of church discipline as an overriding principle prescribed by New Testament writers. He has also publicly endorsed local experiments in same-sex blessing rites, describing them as "within the bonds of our common life," saying it would help him meet pastoral needs.

Paterson, spoke to the Council's opening session, also apologized for the ACC's decision to limit the participation of the Episcopal Church and Anglican Church of Canada's delegations to the last ACC meeting in Nottingham, England in June 2005. He said the two churches who had been asked to voluntarily withdraw their members only passed by two votes. Paterson said the decision "ostracized" the delegations.