What the . . . ?

I came across this news item thanks to epiScope (look for it there below the fold). According to Bakersfield CA's KERO 23 News (ABC),

In December 2007, numerous churches within the San Joaquin Archdiocese voted to leave the national church after a gay bishop was appointed.

Tuesday night, Bishop John-Davis Scofield from the San Joaquin Diocese told the congregation at St. Luke's that the church has not shut its doors on everyone, just those involved in ministry who don't live according to their interpretation of scripture.

“If there is someone of a homosexual orientation that wants to come to church, our doors are wide open,” said Schofield. “I would hope they would want to come. I would hope they would want to hear the word of God and that it would have a profound effect on them” [emphasis mine].

And here I was under the impression that -- according to traditional Episcopalian teaching -- every baptized Christian is a minister of the Gospel . . .

Q. Who are the ministers of the Church?
A. The ministers of the Church are lay persons, bishops, priests, and deacons.

Q. What is the ministry of the laity?
A. The ministry of lay persons is to represent Christ and his Church; to bear witness to him wherever they may be; and, according to the gifts given them, to carry on Christ's work of reconcilation in the world; and to take their place in the life, worship, and governance of the Church. (BCP 855)

. . . which has its biblical basis in (inter alia) 1 Peter 4.9-10:

Use hospitality one to another without grudging. As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. (KJV)

What grounds, then, are there to exclude homosexual persons from the ministry of the diaconate, priesthood, and episcopate, while accepting them into the ministry of the laity?! Hmmmmmmm? ( . . . unless you don't really think of the laity as having any function within the Body of Christ worth calling a ministry.)

Why would "they" want to come to a church like that? How does this invite "them" in the door? How "welcome" would you feel? (It's enough to make Jesus say "Grrrrr!")