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One of my best friends on the west coast is married to an Episcopalian priest (together we fought Planned Parenthood of King County for a few years and really got under their skin hee hee hee) and she told me that the seminaries taught that Immaculate Conception was just a nice story, and that the priests could preach it at Christmastime because the people like to hear it, but no one "in the know" is actually expected to believe it.
I asked another man about it who I knew had studied for E. priesthood in California but became a community church pastor instead, and he said it was true - and much worse was being taught in the seminaries. He left with bad blood between himself and the teachers because he argued in class constantly that the Bible was either written by hands under guidance of the Holy Spirit or it wasn't, and if it wasn't then they should all pack up and go home; if it was, the teachers were blasphemous at best.

Is it the Episcopalian's that don't put a lot of credence in the Blessed Mother .. I thought it was the Protestants

Oh hell all these religions confuse me

You will find that there is a very wide range of teaching and beliefs within the Episcopal church, and it is a well-known fact that some of the most disgustingly liberal institutions of "higher" learning are the nation's seminaries...of all denominations. I am speaking as an ex-seminarian. I have seen some of the most godly and ungodly of people inside the church. Thankfully the churches I have been blessed to belong to have been devoted to spiritual growth and Christian commitment. I am well aware however, that many have digressed from that path even to the point of ordaining known homosexuals, both men and women.