While the Reflections document is depressing in parts, there seems to be no real threat here. I think we should look at the larger picture and the larger message,

OK - I have read documents up to here.

One of the main complaints about the consequences of +Gene's consecration is tha it led to Islamic extremists using his election and consecration as a reaosn to attack African Christians.

The only statements about this have come from African Anglican bishops. To my knowledge they have not cited sources from the Islamic community for this.

As a scholar, and as someone who once wanted to be a journalist, I want to see evidence from independent sources.

Can anyone cite a documented statement by an Islamic leader citing +Gene's consecration in New Hampshire as the reason for attacking African Christians?

Have any African bishops offered such evidence? I have not seen it.

Why should Canada and TEC respond to charges that have never been documented?

If this covenant sticks, then surely we are least headed to Rowan's fav idea of a two-tiered communion. Now whether that works out somewhat positively, by allowing us all to cool off and retrieve a historic Anglican sense of live and let live, along with allowing gospel churches to genuinely offer safe spaces to their queer folks and to all the folks related authentically to their queer folks - yes friends, sisters, brothers, and nowadays mothers and fathers - well such positives remain to be lived among us.

It may also go negatively. If IRD and other USE rightwing funders have their way, and they have had their way a great bit so far in the communion being conservatively realigned, then the war will not stop, and live and let live will be a museum artifact, a bit of Anglican peace displayed in a dusty case somewhere, a curiosity.

At this moment, I think I am leaning towards Fr. Carroll in his posted comments: Let us be more honest and walk gracefully apart in good conscience. I no more want to be beholden to this nasty conservative thinking which asks queer folks to sacrifice lifelong in ways which most straight folks would find twisted and vile, than I want to preach a traditional just war theology in defense of Darfur's genocide.

Establishing a two tiered commmunion would make it harder for TEC to recover its stolen property, especially, I think [but I'm no lawyer] in the Diocese of Virginia matter.

Do you think the ABC would even think of such a thing if CoE property were at issue? Say, +Tom Wright deciding that Canterbury Cathedral would make a nice arch-episcopal seat for himself and his friends?

Not to be crass or anything.

It's like the discussion between the hen and the pig about contributing to the farmer's breakfast ...

How can the ABC get over the fact that the Covenant will have to be approved by Parliament ..and if it excludes gays.... this could be a debacle compared to the 1927 Prayer Book measure. when Parlaianment threw out an Anglo-Catholic revision of the BCP.