Bishop and Presiding Bishop, Episcopal Church, USA
The Episcopal Church USA officially opposed women's ordination, so bishops ordained a few women, then took a vote. They won.
The WELS officially opposed women's ordination. Brug and a bunch of pastors gave papers claiming, strangely, "there is nothing in the Bible against women being pastors." Church and Change skipped ordination (as far as we know) and simply installed women pastors, including one who says in her bio that she "administers the Means of Grace."
Bishop Robinson and his friend.
The Episcopal Church USA officially opposed homosexual priests and bishops - at least if they were out in the open. They finally enthroned Robinson, who celebrated with his male partner and his daughter (from when he was married). That caused an uproar across the world and a split in the world-wide Anglican communion.
The WELS opposed ELCA's latest support of homosexual and lesbian pastors. When the Martin Luther College video, "Party in the USA," was embedded in this blog, there was a huge uproar - against this blog. Wisconsin Luther College's student newspaper printed a front-page editorial, disguised a news, backing up the poor innocent students who naively made a worse video than the Fire Island Pines troop. The gaydar dish was installed Photoshoppingly, to help guard against future video pratfalls.
