Power vs collaboration

Many lay people, and some clergy have left the Anglican Church of Canada (and the Episcopal Church in the United States) over that church's decision to support the blessing of same-gender unions. (That seems to be a gross over-simplification of what the Anglican Church has actually done - over-simplification to the point of major distortion.)
I was ordained priest by a clergy member who has since renounced his/her Anglican ordination. I think this individual acts without regard to the implications of this renunciation.
I do not for a moment, of course, think that the decision was taken lightly. It's a decision which lends weight, however, to much of my experience of Anglican christianity during the past 25 years.
The renunciation of participation in the Anglican Church of Canada calls into question the validity of every sacramental act - every ordination, every baptism, every celebration of eucharist. One who renounces the vocation of presiding over the acts as an Anglican clergy member of necessity, I think, renounces the acts themselves. My celebration of marriage, my ordination, the celebration of baptism of my children - it is as if they had never happened.
During my active parish ministry, the Anglican Church on more than one occasion refused to allow my requests to use my continuing education leave (3 weeks per year) to study communication skills. This subject was apparently considered inappropriate as continuing education. The Anglican Church’s unwillingness, as a matter of policy at the national level, to fund this type of further education among its clergy seems to have persisted during over 25 years. I am convinced that this outlook, shared (as the foregoing makes clear) by many Canadian Anglican leaders who otherwise disagree to the point of complete separation, has led to the current division in the Anglican communion.
Successful communicators using the mediation model have a proven record in furthering communication and collaboration between even the most intractable enemies. One of my B. C. Justice Institute instructors, for instance, had a success rate of slightly higher than 50% in the extremely difficult case of enabling, not reconciliation, but at least peaceful and collaborative coexistence, between the members of couples in which the man has been jailed for physically abusing his partner. Developing and maintaining peaceful collaboration within the Anglican Church, with all our common goals and purposes, would seem to have been an easy matter compared to creating peace in the situations I have alluded to. The various opinions in the Anglican Church are held by individuals who, to increase their power and influence by decreasing that of others, have systematically created conflict and division. For all their alleged differences, this systematic fostering of conflict is one area in which Anglican leaders have shown themselves to have common ground.
There are many who have paid, and will continue to pay, a huge price for this mutual abandonment of the good news of the Prince of Peace by leaders across the Canadian churches.