At its convention in Anaheim last month, the Episcopal Church, the American branch of the Anglican Communion, lifted an informal ban on the ordination of gay bishops and took other steps that further exacerbated tensions with domestic conservatives and the global church.
There is an attitude among many of the Episcopal Church’s leaders that dismisses Holy Scripture without even a “by your leave.”
It’s treated the Bible that way since the ‘Enlightenment’ although basic orthodoxy has been on paper for it all this time so it’s still (for now) a Christian denomination. There was a shift from understanding [i]reason[/i] as conforming yourself to reality (the way Aristotle, the Schoolmen and the mythical three-legged stool approach it) to ‘I not God am the master of the universe’. With that worldview, redefining sex isn’t surprising at all. (A religion for upper-middle-class snobs, including old hippie flakes, who are ‘into spirituality’; like the rest of us God exists to serve and please them.)