There's a lot more wrong with the ECUSA and the Church of England than gays and women priests. As the Queen said several years ago - "there are shadowy forces at work" and their main objective is the destabilization and domination of Christianity.
It is common knowledge that control of the church - at the highest offices - is the global goal of anti-Christian forces. They have succceeded beyond their wildest dreams with the Episcopalions. If not for the luck of the Irish - so to would go the vatican.
The fact that history records the early Church as having an Episcopal form of Church government and having no real objections to it until the Reformation is telling, to say the least. It is also important to mention that the disciples of the Apostles themselves modeled the Episcopalian form of government after what the Apostles themselves did. They travelled around the world building congregations into churches and then would move off to do the same elsewhere. Then they would often write back or re-visit and take care of ordaining new ministers, disciples, or church discipline. The Council of Jerusalem, found in the Book of Acts, is a good example of Apostolic authority. The Apostles gave their own disciples this same authority, and that disciple became a higher overseer over an individual church overseer.
This reveals the importance of continuing the tradition and of continuing the line of Apostolic authority. As the Church of England had a much milder, though equally as violent, Reformation, the line of Apostolic authority has continued, as the office of the Archbishop of Canterbury has continued. What it means to be an Anglican, or a part of the Ecclesia Anglicana, is that historically authority has gone unbroken from generation to generation, across the world, back to England, back to the Romans, back to the early Church fathers, and back to the Apostles, to whom Christ gave the authority. Similarly, the same Apostolic line has transcended down through the Church of Rome as well as the Eastern Orthodox Churches. It has not transcended down, physically speaking, through any other branch of Christianity.
Because Anglicanism is rooted deeply in tradition, as well as the Reformation, Anglicanism has two main groups within it. The Anglo-Catholics who are modern-day descendants of the Anglicans who left Rome when the Church of England was formed but held on to the theology. The Evangelicals are modern-day descendants of the Reformed Protestants in the Anglican Church. Obviously both camps are orthodox Christian believers who proclaim the grace of Christ, just in different ways. Many of each group's beliefs conflict with the other group's, but both agree on the essentials of the faith. Both agree on the authority of Scripture, interpreted by Tradition and Reason (Hooker's "Three-Legged Stool"). They agree on the Apostle's and Nicene Creed for the interpretation and expression of their faith. Their common hope is Christ alone for their salvation and the salvation of the world. This should be the same for all Christians, but unfortunately it is not.