The votes are in from the Church of England's General Synod and clearly the appeal of Archbishop Rowan Williams to draw lines in the sand and lithmus tests for Anglicanism prevailed. Three houses vote in England. The breakdown:
- Bishops: 39 for, 0 against, 1 abstain
- Clergy: 145 for, 32 against, 11 abstain
- Laity: 147 for, 25 against, 8 abstain
This vote now sends the document on to the dioceses of CoE. It will come back again before General Synod for final approval. And so, what next? Those of us who have been blogging through the No Anglican Covenant Coalition have been laying a foundation on which to build the case for why the Covenant is not the "only way forward" as has been asserted. That education will continue as this thing snakes along.
Many thanks to those who voted in my highly unscientific poll in the right margin. I think the majority got it right: the better name for the Anglican Covenant is the UNAnglican Coup d'etat.
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