This Is Why We Support Fr. Robinson

We need many more clergy who have this kind of Spirit-driven fight in them.  Church history is replete with such.  There have always been political clergy since the Constantinian Settlement, and it is arguably the case that certain Catholic dogmas would not have been enshrined in the Tradition if it weren't for their political activism.  I give you, since the Settlement, figures such as St. John of Damascus. I give you clergy who were politically engaged throughout the Middle Ages, East and West, and during the establisment of Erastianism in the Church of England.  I give you the Ecumenical Patriarch, Bartolomew, and the Patriarch of Moscow, Kirill.

The Anglican Continuum is of course theologically conservative, and it would seem for the most part that its constituents are politically conservative with regard to social issues at least, but it does seem to me that its brand of political conservatism doesn't differ in significant respect from the kind of Northern "conservatism" derided by the 19th-century Presbyterian pastor and theologian R.L. Dabney:

"This is a  party which never conserves anything. Its history has been that it demurs to each aggression of the progressive party, and aims to save its credit by a respectable amount of growling, but always acquiesces at last in the innovation. . . .

American conservatism is merely the shadow that follows Radicalism as it moves towards perdition. It remains behind it, but never retards it, and always advances near its leader.

This pretended salt hath utterly lost its savor: wherewith shall it be salted?

Its impotency is not hard, indeed, to explain. It is worthless because it is the conservatism of expediency only, and not of sturdy principle."

I get the sense that Fr. Robinson's opponents in the Anglican Communion are prim, proper and "reserved"  folk who are more concerned about comportment according to the "English way", and therefore also, sadly, who don't want to rock the boat for Jesus Christ.  Which of our bishops or our lower clergy would do what Fr. Robinson did in defense of traditional marriage in a room full of secularists, as seen in this video?  Rather, Robinson is viewed by too many of them as an embarrassment.