Privately pressed for more, Archbishop Ernest said only that "we will see what the agenda is all about. We know where the Global South and CAPA (Council of Anglican Provinces in Africa) Primates stand, but we are definitely waiting until the preparatory meetings" that will take place in February before the Tanzania gathering. "We work together and we shall be together" on this issue, he said.

This new warning comes over the Anglican Communion as the African Archbishops continue to push the American Episcopal Church to show both repentance and restraint over homosexuality consecrations and same-sex unions. The Nigerians have indicated that total exclusion of the Episcopal Church is the only way forward.

He is an easy target for post Christian Episcopal leaders, becoming the new whipping boy of pansexualists anxious to ride the wave of guilt free sexual experimentation handed down by resolutions from several Episcopal General Conventions. Never mind that, according to the Center for Disease Control (CDC) 19 million new sexually transmitted infections occur each year, almost half of them among young people aged 15 to 24.

"The leadership of the Diocese of Virginia - Bishop Peter James Lee, the Standing Committee and the Executive Board - will meet after the expiration of the standstill agreement to determine their next course of action. Specifically, the Standing Committee must decide the status of the clergy of the departed congregations. In turn, the Executive Board must consider whether the property of these Episcopal churches has been abandoned."