Regarding the Conservative movement and Gays

This post is a letter to the editor of the Jewish Standard that I've sent in response to two articles about the Conservative movement and Gays:
http://www.jstandard.com/articles/1983/1/Decision-shows-diversity-of-movement - this one is by Rabbi Epstein and http://www.jstandard.com/articles/1988/1/Gay-ruling-outside-halachic-framework by Rabbi Roth

Dear Editor
Firstly I must state that I am an Orthodox Jew, but that does not mean that I draw any joy of witnessing the miserable state into which the Conservative movement forced itself lately. This letter has two parts. In the first part I will address Rabbi J.M Epstein’s article “Decision shows diversity of movement” (Jewish Standard 12/15/2006) and in the second part I will address Rabbi J. Roth.
According to various sources’ assertions the Conservative movement is a halakha based movement. I’ve read statements to that effect from Rabbi Engelmayer on these pages, from Rabbi Roth and from Rabbi Epstein himself in this article. I do not have any reason not to believe these esteemed Rabbis, so I would agree that the Conservative movement indeed maintains that it is a halakha based movement. I also understand that the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards believes that it has the authority to issue responsa and decide on matters of Jewish law.
The problem in Rabbi Epstein article is that instead of using his (and the committee's) stated authority, he chose the path of intellectual dishonesty and cowardice. Rabbi Epstein knows very well and Rabbi Roth’s current and previous responsa explain exactly why, even in modern terms, that from the halakha’s point of view, actual homosexual relations are forbidden. He knows, or should know Hebrew well enough to read the various statements on the subject in the Torah and see that they do not yield to any interpretation except of the simple clear meaning. However, instead of deciding that either, like the Reform movement, the Conservative movement should disregard the Torah OR otherwise, as Rabbi Roth has suggested, follow the halakha and forbid the practice altogether; instead off doing any of those, the Conservative movement chose to drop the issue on the shoulders of the weakest link in the chain. Does Rabbi Epstein really believe or does he want us to really believe that the individual pulpit rabbis could withstand the pressure of their congregations. What the Committee really did was to force the congregational rabbis to either decide their consciousness and risk losing their jobs OR even worse, to behave like spiritual prostitutes.
Dear editor, you see, the story of the rabbi as the Mara d’Asra is very problematic even in more traditional parts. In the Conservative movement it is no more then a Fairy Tale.
Let me analyze what have happened in the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards meeting. Rabbi Epstein could not gather enough support to join the Reform Movement's path and do away with both the halakha and his rival Rabbi Roth, but he did manage to gather enough political support to drop the issue on the congregational rabbis, so next time over, after the honest one will go away he would have the majority anyway. Rabbi Roth just saw the writing on the wall, and being intellectually honest chose to leave in disgust.
And now to Rabbi Roth! I believe that he indeed believes in his path and his perception of what the Conservative movement should be. However it looks like that in the struggle on the soul of that movement he's lost. I think that many of his friends have already foresaw that lose some two decades ago when they formed the UTJ. If Rabbi Roth really believes in the teachings of the JTS, he may just join with them. And if, on the other hand, he may already see the fallacy in those teachings, he could simply come home, we are waiting for him and with love.