They argued that the University of the South has a long standing tradition of conferring upon graduates of both the School of Theology and the College of Arts and Sciences, who become Episcopal bishops the honorary degree Doctor of Divinity. Neither the Student Assembly nor the Gay-Straight Alliance has any official connection to the Episcopal Church.

Orthodoxy, he said, represents a theological compromise or reduction made to include diversity.

The bishop blasted orthodox bishops willing to cross diocesan boundaries saying they "willfully violated the centuries-old consensus in place since the Council of Nicea that no bishop will enter the geographic bounds of another bishop's diocese without his or her permission."

Already the Province of Southeast Asia that incorporates Singapore, Sabah, Kuching and West Malaysia (the latter is an Anglo-Catholic stronghold) with churches in Indonesia, Thailand and Brunei, has swept passed the American Episcopal Church in terms of actual practicing Anglicans.

The six will go. How they will go has now been determined - inhibition and deposition - what they will do is uncertain. Will they take their people to the AMIA or come under an overseas primate, or will they simply resign and look for different work we do not, as yet, know. But as Episcopal priests they are finished unless by some miracle they are picked up by an orthodox bishop. But such jobs are few and far between.