A colleague who is Episcopalian describes the rift thus: "Here we have the faith of the Founding Fathers, the religion that is the purest representation of old-line American power and money, tearing itself apart before our very eyes over … homosexuality. How embarrassing! How publicly humiliating—this for a faith and culture that abhors nothing more than public humiliation."
The Episcopal Church is not the first formerly-Chirstian group to go pagan. Choices must be made every day and some people make the wrong ones. The difference is that the Christians used to be influential enough to maintain some control.
I thought the Anglican Communion severed its ties to the Episcopal Church in the US over this? I know several parishes here in VA have split from the Episcopal Church USA and joined with an archdiocese in Africa. I can’t keep up with it. We long since left.
What’s old is new again. Churches that tolerate sex perversion date back to bible times. Amazingly, the Lord did not zap them immediately.