Your post is serious and substantive. Thk u for it.
To declare my own pawns in the battle, I am a failed product of my mama to make me a Southern Baptist. Regrettably instead I came out an atheist. (Which our fellow poster MsGuy here will note is but one more breed of believer. He is right, but be that as it may!)
To try and get to my point: Having watched Bishop Gene Robinson's struggles with his Communion over some years, what are your thoughts about this issue? Protecting doctrine and core belief against arbitrary or even evil onslaught is clearly a duty. But how to discern when spiritual -- and worldly -- authority of experience authentically challenges received doctrine? And -- as Luther found, quite to his dismay -- what to do when schism is the only path left open to one?