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I had brought this up at the time. I was met with disbelief, and was told that I was simply taking this position because I was actually anti-gay and was trying to mask my true feelings.

I had an opportunity to meet with our Diocese's Assistant Bishop. He told us (there was a group of us) that many Bishops were surprised at the furor because numerous divorced and remarried bishops, and numerous gay bishops (some who discreetly had partners) had already been ordained. I told him that the reason there was no furor over those was because no one knew about them. Foolish us, we had trusted the hierarchy to weed out such. Other bishops hadn't sought publicity. Plus, the vast majority of them were confimed in Diocesean Committee meetings, where there were no cameras or other media, and where the rest of the Diocese didn't know what was up (and neither did most of the Diocesean delegates, I'll wager). It was only because V. Gene Robinson was open and because there was a central place for all to vote that this got out to public notice.

I think the other thing that made Robinson's election different is that not only was this done very publicly (at the Convention, etc.) -- but it was done in the age of the Internet. Thanks to sites like Free Republic, Virtuosity, Classical Anglican Net News, American Anglican Council, Midwest Conservative Journal, etc., etc., etc., Episcopalians nationwide can *very* easily learn what is going on, and also use the Internet to network. This was simply not the case prior to the last few years. I, for instance, had no idea there were other homosexual bishops ordained, and, like you, was trusting that the national leadership had more sense than to ordain unrepentant sinners.

I told him that the reason there was no furor over those was because no one knew about them

I think the unfortunate failure of the attempted lifelong marital love and commitment between a man and a woman is sad and tragic, and usually is due to sin --even if it is only the sin of impatience with one another.

For a man to purposely give in to a lustful sodomy relationship with another man seems to be a poor comparison. And perhaps a red herring offered up out there as a twist of logic.