The Episcopal Church has been rotting from the inside out ever since radical homosexuals with their feminist handlers set out to take over the church in 1998 and rewrite the Holy Scriptures. I have been following this circus of reprobates for quite some time now and the following link fairly well summarizes the degree of decay. It isn't about justice for homosexuals; it is about full inclusion and they view the Bible as a huge obstacle. Now that they have a "private label" religion, they can shape their doctrine anyway they want to include: The Bible as “oppressive”, Jesus not divine, the Immaculate Conception not, and that confessing sin and repentance is no longer the standard for receiving salvation. The only thing they had to leave behind was the Old Testament, the witness of the church past and the New Testament of the apostles. This is an example of what happens when you allow the Holy Bible to be unraveled warp and woof without contention. After awhile there is nothing of substance left. We shouldn't be surprised; Paul spelled it out very clearly in Jude 1:12-13.
http://www.americananglican.org/site/apps/nl/content2.asp?c=ikLUK3MJIpG&b=675589&ct=2195837
Thanks for the link, MountainMenace. You've brought up some excellent points.
Here's something I've thought about for quite some time.
The Episcopal Church, which is the ECUSA is generically "Anglican" but churches which fall under ECUSA umbrella are not real members of any Anglican Church Anglican community.
The breakaway churches who joined the Uganda Diocese did so symbolically and to get away from ECUSA affiliation.
Yet the breakaway congregations did so without completely leaving the Episcopal community as a whole.
There are many fine Anglican Churches which have not yet entertained the bizarre changes of the ECUSA and have no affiliation with the ECUSA.
I wonder if the real Anglican community could and will at some point prevent the Episcopal Church from using the Anglican name.
The ECUSA seems to use the term Anglican as a generic descriptive term.
The real Anglican Community has no female priests, uses services from the 1928 Book of Common Prayer, doesn't involve itself with the ECUSA nor any of the ECUSA's issues, etc.