What I can't tell by the article below is whether the aim is to "put up with" and/or accept a portion of the Episcopal church that buys into the homosexual agenda, or if the aim is to convert the entire Episcopal church to become orthodox and give up the homosexual agenda, and hold to the Word of God instead.   If it's the former that they aim for, I would say that it would be hypocritical for the global Anglican church to be an umbrella over two divergent religions:  one that holds to Scriptural Authority and a parallel religion that sees the Bible as a work of prose and/or philosophy.

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AAC Launches New Anglican Missionary Structure within ECUSA

 
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -- August 28, 2000
Contact:  Bruce Mason  703-273-3140

The Board of the American Anglican Council (AAC) at its August
2000 meeting  committed itself to the creation of a new domestic
and foreign Anglican missionary structure, within and parallel
to the existing structures of the Episcopal Church (ECUSA).  The
Board pledged to begin immediately the effort of gathering
together in a united effort those orthodox, biblical,
evangelical, anglo-catholic, and charismatic Anglican bodies
that "share a vision for the propagation of the Gospel in a
faithful expression of Anglican Christianity."

"It is increasingly clear that the Episcopal Church suffers
profound divisions and that traditional views are in a minority
in the power structures," said AAC president the Rt. Rev. James
Stanton.  "Responding to that reality, we seek to explore a new
orthodox structure within the Episcopal Church, and will work to
unite orthodox Anglican bodies in the USA under the banner of
mainstream Anglicanism."

Over the coming months the AAC will begin planning for a major
convention that would bring together the diverse orthodox
Anglican bodies in the USA. In addition, the AAC will take its
experience from the successful Y2K4JC conference and expand its
youth initiative, raising up youth leaders and hosting another
youth conference targeted for 2002.

The AAC will launch a comprehensive Initiative on Marriage in
response to the moral confusion within the Episcopal Church on
issues related to sexuality and marriage.  This confusion was
evidenced in the General Convention sexuality resolution D039.
The AAC will expand its Ministry Development Pilot Project,
which provides an innovative and fully canonical alternative
route to ordination.  The AAC will also remain active in the
legislative process of ECUSA, as well as within diocesan
conventions and interim bodies, and will begin preparing for
General Convention 2003.

Finally, the AAC will commit itself to church growth and
evangelism as a proactive response to General Convention's goal
of doubling membership in ECUSA.  This effort will include the
expansion of the "God's Love Changed Me" campaign which tells
the powerful story of God's transforming love.

"A concern for evangelism is a hallmark of orthodox and
evangelical Episcopalians," said AAC Board member Rev. John
Guernsey.  "We want to offer our enthusiasm and commitment in
this effort, and we will continue to make committed disciples to
Jesus Christ."

On other matters, the AAC board officially recognized the
consecrations of the Right Reverends Charles H. Murphy III and
John H. Rodgers, Jr., and their deployment to the United States
of America as Missionary Bishops from the Provinces of Rwanda
and Southeast Asia.   The Board expressed a shared concern with
the Provinces of Rwanda and Southeast Asia for supporting and
expanding within the United States of America a faithful,
orthodox expression of biblical Anglican Christianity.
Additionally, the AAC urged that the Primates of the Anglican
Communion actively work for regularizing the status of the
bishops consecrated in Singapore as envisioned in the Oporto
statement.

Addressing General Convention's approval of resolution D039 on
human sexuality, the AAC board passed a resolution affirming the
sanctity of Marriage as Instituted by God and affirmed by the
church over the course of two millennia."  The board stated that
it "deeply regret[s] and deplore[s] the ambiguity of resolution
D039 which appears to support sexual partnerships outside the
bonds of marriage."

At General Convention the AAC successfully defeated the 8th
resolved of D039 which would have authorized the development of
rites for same-sex unions and split ECUSA. The first 7 resolves,
however, send confusing and contradictory signals regarding
ECUSA's commitment to marriage.

The American Anglican Council is an orthodox and mainstream
mission organization working for the transformation and
revitalization of the Episcopal Church.