I know somebody who knows a lady who sat on a lot of committees with Robinson back in New Hampshire, before he got famous.
She said, "It is always all about Gene, and always has been."
It seems like a basic personality flaw that has been with him for a long time. Too bad he had to wreck the entire Episcopal church just to satisfy his own desire for attention.
(of course, he would have gotten nowhere fast if the church hadn't been ripe for destruction. In the larger sense, it really isn't about Gene, he's just the sort of person who takes advantage of a situation that's already developed. The sickness in the Episcopal Church really got rolling back in the late 60s and early 70s.)
It goes back well farther than that, AAM. I have researched the lectionary in use in ECUSA and found that it was extremely heavy on church (and Jewish history) in 1892. The 1928 revisers then removed the less-than-absolutely-necessary history and injected a good dose of the prophets. So far so good.
Then in 1943, along came another set of revisers who removed most of the rest of the Jewish history and anything which suggested homosexuality might not be altogether proper (in particular, Romans 1:27-28, for instance). That lectionary was still in use until 1977 when the latest one was superimposed.
Liberalism is a long-held trait in Episcopal liturgy, my lady.