The Episcopal Church\u2019s decision to proceed with the consecration broke one of three moratoria outlined in the Communion\u2019s Windsor Report. The report requested a period of \u201cgracious restraint\u201d\u009d during which there provinces would not proceed with the ordination of gay or lesbian people as bishops, the blessing of same-sex unions, and cross-border interventions by bishops outside their own province. In June, Canon Kenneth Kearon, general secretary of the Anglican Communion, wrote to members of The Episcopal Church to inform them that as a result of the Los Angeles consecration, their membership on committees for ecumenical dialogue had been withdrawn.<\/p>\n
But the standing committee did not go further in that direction. Commenting on the meeting\u2019s results, Archbishop Hiltz, said, \u201cFor lots of people, it\u2019s very encouraging because there was a lot of anxiety\u201d\u00a6,\u201d\u009d said Archbishop Hiltz of the standing committee\u2019s decision. \u201c\u201d\u00a6 It\u2019s pretty clear, in spite of a request that the Episcopal Church be [asked] to leave, that that was one voice and everybody else said, \u201d\u02dcNo, that\u2019s not the way forward.\u2019 \u201d\u009d<\/p>\n