OK. Let me see if I understand - the elevation of Katharine Jefferts Schori to the position of Presiding Bishop was done purposefully to draw out the conservatives and force them to act? To what end? So they would be identified, then demonized, defrocked, then cast into outer darkness along with supportive parishes and vestries and the properties confiscated?
I have long suspected that this whole twisted scenario playing out in (P)ECUSA/TEC was something of a medieval turf war. It is a tragedy that people in search of Jesus Christ are being misled and others, being alienated, have departed the fold (or are preparing to depart) without clear direction or a new spiritual home in mind. Leaving Sodom and Gomorrah was difficult and painful for Lot's wife - so, she looked back and you know what happened. I pray that departing faithful DO NOT look back whence they came, but onward and upward. My message to those still standing in the middle on the fence: "Come out, come out from among her and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness!"
No, they did it for their own evil purposes, but the message is clear: There is no longer a middle ground.