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It would be interesting to desconstruct the narrative of the South Carolina Episcopal Diocese further, where Canon Kendall Harmon is calling for a partial withdrawal from the national church's governance. From the AP article:

“ Harmon likened the resolution to a wife in a troubled marriage moving to a room down the hall.

''The point is it's intended to save the marriage and she is still in the marriage and she is still in the house,'' he said. ''You're trying to do something that is inherently contradictory in order to be heard.''

My reading of this is that his use of metaphor indicates a worldview that involves over-sexualization. In the metaphor, his diocese is the wife and the larger, national Episcopal governance body is the husband, and his resolution declares that they won’t have sex while they are having disagreements in their marriage?!