Interesting….I made the Minority Report comparision Sun day….I was stunned that so few had seen the movie and did not know what I was talking about!

The HoB illegally deposed +Duncan because it is in full panic mode over the dioceses that it is about to lose and because it knows, deep down, there is nothing it can do, canonically, to prevent it.  So, in a desperate act of shooting the most guilty-looking guy at hand, it did so to +Duncan.  Unfortunately for this lawless band of pseudo-clerics, most of the Communion does not seem to respect its act and will go on recognizing +Duncan as bishop of DioPitt.

“The HOB’s lawyer-bishops cast aside common sense in order to “find” ambiguity that they could then resolve in favor of the Presiding Bishop’s desires”—-Fr. Martins

Worse than that. They cast aside integrity. Their “reinterpretation” of the rule is an Outright Lie.

what i see most clearly in the Presiding Bishop’s actions with Bishop Duncan is the same thing that struck me from a comment she made at Lambeth…(and please forgive me if i don’t have the names or details correct) when the Archbishop of Canterbury shared the news that there would be more acceptance of female priests and bishops (sorry…i know the basics…not the specifics)  i know that was a monumental statement…and the Presiding Bishop’s first reply was in reference to her disappointment/concern that the decision took so long…no thought about what it meant for the Archbishop and the other clergy to be at that place…no consideration of what it meant to them as a body of believers…

and i saw so clearly that the Presiding Bishop was not concerned about the Truth…she was only concerned about being “right”

This passage also stood out for me:

Of this much I am fairly certain: The picture will get darker and more confusing for orthodox Anglicans in the U.S. before it gets lighter and clearer. I can’t even in all honesty bring myself to say something encouraging like “This is the darkness just before dawn.” The truth is, things can, in fact, get a lot darker than they are now. We can pretty much count on that happening. It is a time for letting go of expectations, not with pollyannish nostrums that a deus ex machina will rescue us, but with a willingness to be conformed to the shape of the cross.

Ought we be so surprised that the ones who claim to see ambiguity in “God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another” (Romans 1:26-27) ALSO claim to see ambiguity in “a majority of the whole number of Bishops entitled to vote, shall give its consent” (Canon IV.9.2)? We ought not be surprised at such consistent misreading.

Neither ought we fear it. It a perspective that is as clearly anti-LOGOS as any can be. Which means that it cannot stand and will not stand, but will be utterly burned by the purifying and all-consuming fire of God.

Thank you Dan Martins for your well balance approach.
Again I say AMEN!
Yet, Dan you glossed over a burning question/desire in my soul.
That is a desire to stay in The Episcopal Church and at the same time be/remain a Christian.
The fact that I listed “TEC” before “t” shows that there is either a deficiency in my faith OR my attachment to this branch of the church, I don’t know…
Do I love the “Anglican/Episcopal Experience” more than Jesus?
I’m in earnest here.  This is my struggle. 
Although we Anglicans are “Catholic” in our faith, we are not Roman Catholic.
And as products of the Reformation at what point does it be inconsistent to remain in an increasingly obstinate and heretical branch of of the church?
Where should the faithful draw the line?
It would be an obvious question (for me) to ask a person, “How can you be a Christian a work for Plan Parenthood?  In the same way it’s becoming an increasing obvious question, “How can you be a Christian and be an Episcopalian?”
In Christ,
Your fellow faithful Episcopalian.