In some cases, they have violated the Discipline in its' instructions on consultation with church and pastor before appointment. There are several observations that can be made about this situation. First, I have heard people suggest that liberals are more tolerant than other people. In fact, liberals often lift up diversity as a goal. As most of us evangelicals who have served in this denomination know, that is a sham.
Liberals are no more tolerant than conservatives.
The notion that liberals really are more inclusive is as phony as the conservative notion that conservatives are more moral than liberals. Listen we are all sinners. This whole denomination is being manipulated and most of our colleges and seminaries are effectively controlled by a ruling liberal elite who resist change and fight those who challenge them. If evangelicals were in control it would probably not be much different but let's at least drop the hypocritical notion that liberal is some how equated with tolerance. Too many of us as evangelicals have run into the buzz saw of liberal tolerance to stomach such baloney.