That jumped out at me too.
I noticed the comment in the homily that supposedly right before ECUSA GC 06 President Ford told his priest he didn't think questions about women in the priesthood, and homosexuality should be any reason for schism in the Church.
This part of the sermon seemed out of place--and the priest seemed--desperate almost to mention it, enough so to be inappropriate at a state funeral, ...very interesting.
(Isn't it also interesting how the women's issue is brought up in the news whenever the sodomite bishop is mentioned? Even though it's only the liberals who consistently connect it....)