Sitting grim and red-faced between his two lawyers, the usually smug look on his pale face now gone, Bennison tried to put the best front on his situation as he heard witness after witness condemn him for his inaction in the face of grave sexual misconduct by his brother, John. Bishop Richards publicly declared that Bennison engaged in "'conduct unbecoming a member of the clergy.'

It was a clear victory for the Rt. Rev. William Love, an Evangelical Catholic bishop who opposes the sexual drift in the Episcopal Church.

Several delegates said it was necessary to put the resolution in Canon Law in order to prevent a future General Convention rejecting an orthodox bishop being elected in the diocese because of the necessary two-thirds vote by the HOB. The diocese did not want to be subject to the vagaries of General Convention resolutions.

In a paper titled "COUNTERFEIT COMMUNION AND THE TRUTH THAT SETS FREE", the writers say that there are now two distinct religions in One Communion - one is a revisionist Anglicanism which has adopted contemporary Western humanism and its sceptical assumptions about the Bible while retaining a veneer of religiosity.

Lamb said he was pleased to be going, but said he was more pleased because this was a clear sign from the Anglican Communion that the Episcopal Diocese of San Joaquin is the only Anglican Diocese in all of inland Central California. "I received this invitation because I am your Bishop and, therefore, entitled to attend the Lambeth Conference as the Bishop of the Diocese of San Joaquin recognized by the Archbishop of Canterbury."