Not every Priest gets to be Bishop. Does anybody think that Robinson would have been elected with the same personal history, having left his wife of many years after a long term affair, and then living with this lover who had broken up his marriage, if he had left her for another woman instead of a man?
Yes, I do -- or at least, he could have been, in a revisionist diocese. What's important to the revisionists is, of course, the correct politics. Robinson has the right politics -- he'd be a viable candidate.