The bishops did say that while they did not speak for all Indigenous peoples, they said they consulted "broadly and deeply" with many who voiced displeasure both with the decision and the process it was made, and expressed desire for a more self-determined Indigenous Anglican community in Canada.

"I'm very overwhelmed," he said on the chancel steps after the elections. "I didn't really expect to be standing here on the steps, but I'm deeply, deeply honored. I realize this is an historic day in the life of our church.

"GAFCON recognizes that the Church is not ours. It belongs to Jesus and it is Jesus who builds the Church through his word. We are to be his instruments and not presume to be the architects. Schism happens, as it has in North America, when church leaders take the design into their own hands," he said in an August letter to GAFCON followers.

The major takeaway, as the editor of the journal explains, is that "some of the most frequently heard claims about sexuality and gender are not supported by scientific evidence."
Here are four of the report's most important conclusions:

• The belief that sexual orientation is an innate, biologically fixed human property--that people are 'born that way'--is not supported by scientific evidence.