A Church Divided

I just read about the split in the Episcopal Church over homosexuality, seven Virginian Episcopal Churches have broken away from the US Episcopal Church ( 7 Virginia parishes vote to quit US Episcopal Church Oppose position on including gays) and joined the Episcopal Church of Nigeria. I am not an Episcopalian so I will not comment on the schism, I will however comment on the history of another schism and that is the schism which broke up the American Baptist church to form the Southern Baptist church in 1845 and compare today’s current events..

From Wikipedia:
"North and South grew further apart in 1845 with the formation of the Southern Baptist Convention on the premise that the Bible sanctions slavery and that it was acceptable for Christians to own slaves (the Southern Baptist Convention has since renounced this interpretation). This split was triggered by the opposition of northern Baptists to slavery..."

Back then the nation was divided over slavery with the northern states slowly coming to realize that slavery was wrong and they were starting to ban slavery. Out of the northern churches the abolitionist movement grew as they realize the immorality of slavery creating tension between the north and the south. From this tension the Baptist church split. The Southern Baptist maintained that slavery was permissible because of the Bible allowed it and the courts backed them up with legal decisions supporting slavery.
Once again tension is building between the north and south but this time over homosexuality and again schisms has formed resulting in the splitting of the Episcopal Church this time. Again the northern states led the nation in civil rights with three states passing Civil Unions and one state with marriages for same-sex couples. Again the northern churches are more liberal in dealing with issues of marriage equality than their southern counter parts. We are following the same path with the majority of religions believing that discrimination against homosexuals is acceptable because it is banned in the Bible. Various states and Congress are passing this legislation to deny civil rights homosexuals by limiting marriage to a man and a woman, the courts are once again are up holding the discrimination.
A hundred years from now, will they look back and see the same institutionalized bigotry that we see when we look back at the issue of slavery?