Traditionalists are demanding the right to opt out of the jurisdiction of a woman into special dioceses headed by male bishops, or at least to have guaranteed access to male bishops. Some of them argue that Jesus chose only men to be his 12 apostles, who were given leadership of the early church, and that an unbroken chain of male bishops has led the church since then.

He criticised members of the Global Anglican Future Conference - a new movement for conservative evangelicals opposed to the consecration of gay clergy - for attacking Williams at their inaugural event in Jerusalem last month. The Archbishop of Nigeria, Peter Akinola, accused Williams of apostasy, while Canon Vinay Samuel, from India, dismissed him as an 'historical relic'.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jul/0...ion.anglicanism

I would hope the Global Anglican Future Conference Members will also realize that Jesus did not select any blacks or hispanics as apostles. Somehow I doubt those bishops will ste dowm for a white man to assume his "rightful" leadership position. They are nothing but hypocritic, homophobic, women hating bigots. Whether they are black or hispanic, the description fits.

Ephesians 5:23-24 says....
“For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.”

I Corinthians 14:34-35 says...
“Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law. And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.”

Thank you Paul for your misogynistic views!!

Yeah, the first Episcopalian diocese to do this in the US is from my home state of happy oh-so-liberal California.

http://articles.latimes.com/2007/dec/09/local/me-episcopal9

We AMEs OTOH have been ordaining women since the late 1800s.