An article in the London Telegraph by Jonathan Wynne-Jones this past week said Williams has told homosexuals that they need to change their behavior if they are to be welcomed into the church. The church, he said, must be a welcoming community but is not an inclusive one.

If nothing can stop the revisionist juggernaut in the Western Church bent on self immolation, so nothing can stop the spread of the gospel throughout the continent of Africa, torn as it is by tribal wars, poverty, illiteracy, HIV/AIDS and so much more.

The message was pleading, straightforward and from the heart: "Our beloved +John-David Schofield is under attack by +Mathes, +Bruno, +Swing & +Lamb for "abandonment" of the ECUSA. Can you please rally support for him, asking conservative priests to write to overseas bishop friends and beg them to put pressure on ++Rowan Williams to declare himself as the Alternative Primate for San Joaquin?"

Those seeking a divorce fall into three categories. Six of the dioceses want alternative primatial oversight; one diocese wants direct primatial oversight from the Archbishop of Canterbury himself, and an eighth diocese has expressed solidarity with the other seven but hasn't made a full commitment to leaving owing to the fact that they are in the midst of changing bishops and it would be inappropriate for an outgoing bishop to make a commitment for an incoming bishop.