The Anglican Covenant has drawn fire from an Anglican anarchist contingent which is reluctant to be tied down by such trivia as dogma and creeds. Their website is populated with endorsements from the usual suspects, including a double-barrelled Canadian pomposity consisting of the Revs. Malcolm French and Alan Perry.

The Rev Gregory Cameron, who was on the committee that drew up the covenant, has their number, though, and has characterised them as “latter-day little Englanders”. Very perceptive.

From here:

[C]ritics of the plan, which is known as the Anglican Covenant, claim it would cede control over the affairs of the Church of England to a foreign authority for the first time since Henry VIII.

The covenant was deemed necessary after international criticism from conservative Anglicans followed the ordination of the Rt Rev Gene Robinson, who is openly gay, as Bishop of New Hampshire in 2004.

Two liberal groups, Inclusive Church and Modern Church, have launched a campaign against the covenant plan, which they say is overwhelmingly backed by traditionalists.

The critics ran an advertisement in the Church Times claiming that the plan represented a move to install an “authoritarian leadership” and “the biggest change to the Church since the Reformation”.

However, the Bishop of St Asaph, the Rt Rev Gregory Cameron, who was on the committee that drew up the covenant, described the opponents as “latter-day little Englanders”.