The corporate decision on the part of the Episcopal Church to turn its back on God and His Word is important. The words used in the Bible to describe such actions are apostasy adopting a state of anathema. That is not to suggest that they could not change their minds, metanoia, and repent; but society is a bit more complex in how it moves than individuals are practically speaking. The Episcopal Church has decided that the only ultimate guide to their faith, the Bible, is wrong and they are right. They have voted in favor of adultery, fornication, and homosexuality as acceptable and now it is a matter of de facto ecclesiastic jurisprudence. The members of the church that disagree are left with a decision to make. History, the Bible, and accepted church practice has been turned on its corporate ear. They can stay or go with either decision having its own import and implications. The Bible teaches in its pages the wise would flee. Common sense tells me that the best thing to do is flee. What they have decided makes no sense in the context of Christianity. Christians who believe more in the cause of an adulterous homosexual living in opposition to God and His Word are deluded if they think it is contextual consistent. It is not because sin cannot be forgiven, it is because they say there is no sin in any of it, or enough of it to matter. There is nothing for them to ask forgiveness of since they have decided their action is right.
Jesus said that because the religious leaders of His day during the First Advent did not think they needed healing He would not heal them, for if they would admit of it, He would turn and heal them. The Episcopal Church has instituted a policy whereby people cannot consider the counsel of God and turn. They are right and God is wrong in their eyes, something common in the days of the Judges of the Bible. There is a way that seems right to people and it leads to Death, spiritual Death.
Jesus was born into a world much different than that of today on many levels. The new Bishop would have been quite a pious fellow in that long ago time. Jesus came and split history into distinctly differing ways of being. The world that He was born into practiced all sorts of things and corruption was the way of doing things. Idolatry, sorcery, cruelty, murder, and all sorts of ills were the way things were and accepted as such as normative. If you were Roman, it was fine legally to kill one of your children for whatever reason you thought right. Cult prostitution and ritual sacrifice were common and the way to do things among many. Caesars were considered chaste if they did not indulge in sex with male children, although it was acceptable to do so. If one could have traveled long enough and met enough people, most anything was acceptable legally and culturally that we in this country have believed and believe is cruel and wrong.
The Jews rebelled against Rome after the death of Jesus and the prefecture of Rome applied the normative law to try and put a stop to such infractions. 3,000 Levites for each tribe of Israel was selected for a total of 36,000 Jewish priests and made an example of for the sake of the Pax Roma. They were crucified and their skin was pulled off of them completely so that the even the air brought pain as they slowly died. Can you imagine driving home from work and all along the way there are these people bleeding with no skin, their muscles, the bare meat exposed hanging on crosses for miles. I am sure it would impress you as it did the Jews and others who saw cross after cross with humans on them in that state. Our liberal and progressive thinkers say that for them it was just fine and right to do because it was normative behavior for the Romans. Of course the leading lights that apologize for evil of any sort do not think they might end up that way or consider if they would like to be skinned alive and put on a cross to have bugs eat at them and birds to peck at their flesh.
Those who say the Bible is just another book fail to see that the Torah teaches against brutality and we knew (some still know) the principle of Lex Talonis derives from the Torah. The accusers of God do not know that "an eye for an eye" is a saying that means the punishment should not exceed the gravity of the crime. In fact the Romans blew by the fact the Levite priests were being arbitrarily chosen to quell a population and justice as we know it was not even a consideration. Yet the forward thinking progressives see not reason to honor a book that admonished against that sort of thing. Those who think people will always be fair and gentle are mistaken as well. Jesus said the law was made for man, not man for the law; but this is forgotten or not known to those who invoke the wisdom of man as superior to that of God.