Kenneth Kearon, secretary general of the Anglican Communion, met with members of the Executive Council of the Episcopal Church today (June 18, 2010) and it wasn’t, apparently, a pleasant encounter.

Members of the Episcopal Church leadership are angry that they’ve been disciplined for ordaining an openly-lesbian bishop. Kearon told them that they should have known there’d be sanctions if they split with the rest of the Anglican Communion — again — on the issue of homosexuality, Episcopal News Servicereports.

Kearon also defended the Communion’s decision to remove Episcopal Church officials from various ecumenical dialogues, saying:

“There is a logic which says if you do not share the faith and order of the wider communion then you shouldn’t represent that communion to the wider church.”

It sounds like it was a tense meeting. Kearon asked that the meeting be private conversation. The executive council rejected his request. Kearson launched into his opening statement. The presiding bishop cut him off, telling him his time was up.

Executive council member Leelanda Lee tweeted the meeting, letting people know when Kearon had paused and stammered.

The way they treated Kearon, you’d have thought he was the chief executive officer of British Petroleum.

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