Anglican church splitting over homosexuality

Anglican primates agreed Thursday that the U.S. Episcopal Church and the Anglican Church of Canada would withdraw from a key body of the global Anglican Communion after failing to overcome internal church disagreements about the election of a gay bishop in the United States and the blessing of same-sex unions there and in Canada. It's sad to watch the decline of the Anglican Church, and for that matter of the United Church, in the west. But it's somewhat heart warming to see the leadership that has emerged both in Africa and Latin America. What is it about material confort that so easily corrupts?