There seems to be quite a bit more going on under the guise of a sexual identity battle within the Episcopal Church.  As tempers flare and patience runs short, tongues from either side of this divisive issue can spit such vitriol worthy of only the lowliest of humans.  Following is an excerpt from an exceptionally written and thoughtfully composed article concerning the crisis in the Anglican Communion:

While some progressive activists have worked tirelessly to build coalitions across lines of injustice, others have seemed to give up on their international church colleagues. Liberal, white U.S. bishops have been accused of intellectual elitism in discussing their overseas partners. Local church members have also been complicit: at a San Francisco meeting in the late 1990s, white participants talked about “those African bishops” as the problem that needed to be solved. And at a May 2002 gathering of queer religious activists in New York City, a white, gay Episcopalian summarized the Anglican world’s problems as that of Africans “monkeying around” in the rest of the church. To the shock of some in the room, he finished his presentation by saying, “All I have to say to these bishops is: Go back to the jungle where you came from.”

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