Sounds like there might be a hint of bigotry in the appeal.
There has been more than just a "hint" of bigotry in some of the statements by TEC leadership heretofore; insinuations that the Southern bishops were benighted bigots because they did not understand the revisitionist hermeneutic that endorses the gay agenda.
Of course they understood it; it was heresy and smelled of the Devil so they rightly wanted nothing to do with it.