"As I have often said, the liberals are really after the property. The use of gay clergy and same-sex marriage support is just a way to get conservative parisioners to leave, abandoning the real estate and the trust funds to the liberals."
They are after control of the properties, pension funds and the huge endowment/trust funds.
However, things aren't going all their way any more.
Yes, and this is a very promising development. If the courst real this way in some other states, I will bet you that some of these gay priests suddenly feel the need to become Methodists. (Methodists have a more difficult time getting control of their property from the church hierarchy, because the Methodists used more iron-clad language.)