Who would be a Christian?

I don't know whether I have been more amused or exasperated at the latest clashes within the Anglican Church. I start from the fact that I am an atheist and I just cannot believe what I see or hear. It seems that the church is going to split because of the issue of gay bishops and some member of the church finding this unacceptable. Presumably the same bunch of people who were anti the ordinatioon of women priests and who resist the appointment of women bishops. I just can't believe that a bunch of people who claim to be Christians can be so frankly unchristian about this. People are not made less able to be believers or faithful because they are gay, or indeed because they are women. In today's world I would be castigated (rightly so) for suggesting that because people belonged to other ethnic groups they were not entitled to be priests or bishops in the Anglican community. How then can it be Christian to exclude people because they are gay or women? Isn't it the Christians themselves who say that we are all God's children? Why then are some of us less deserving of hierarchical positions within the church? All I can say is, it is yet another reason for me to be glad to be an Atheist!