1: Marriage is between a man and a woman until death;

2: Homosexual practice is rejected as incompatible with Scripture; and

3): The legitimizing or blessing of same-sex unions is ill advised as is the ordination of those involved in same-gender relationships.

The Anglican Communion has managed to break -- willingly break, openly break, repeatedly break, unrepentantly break -- those basic three tenets of Lambeth 1.10.

Thomas Brown, leader the Episcopal Diocese of Maine, is traveling to Canterbury, England, on Wednesday with his spouse, Thomas Mousin, for the fifteenth Lambeth Conference. Mousin, the rector of St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Portland, won't be allowed entry to events on the "the spouses' programme," including a retreat, bible studies, seminars and meetings with the other spouses.

"Male and female (man and woman) He created them, and He blessed them ..." (Genesis 5:2)

Somewhere along the line between when Genesis was written (circa possibly between the 6th-5th centuries BC) and when the Church of England General Synod met last week, the Mother Church of Anglicanism lost the ability to define what a woman is.

The Episcopal Church has supported legal abortion since 1967, before the 1973 Roe v Wade court decision struck down state laws restricting abortion. Bishops of the global Anglican Communion, of which the Episcopal Church is a part, recorded "abohorrence of the sinful practice of abortion" at the 1930 Lambeth Conference of Bishops.