From here:

The Church of England cannot sign up to a plan aimed at preventing the global Anglican Church from splitting up after half its dioceses voted against it.

The Archbishop of Canterbury backed the Anglican Covenant in a bid to ensure divisive issues – such as gay bishops – did not cause the Communion to split.

The Lincoln diocese has become the 22nd of 44 CofE dioceses to reject the plan.

The covenant had already been rejected by conservative global Church leaders, whom it was intended to placate.

Conservatives rejected the covenant because it didn’t have the teeth to prevent provinces like TEC and the ACoC from doing what they enjoy most: going deeper – into heresy. What conservatives wanted was a covenant that would work.

Liberals like the manic No Anglican Covenant crowd will no doubt rejoice at their apparent victory, blissfully unaware that when God punishes people, he often gives them what they want with the inevitable result that they become the authors of their own demise.

The seat of Anglican Christianity has shifted to Africa where it is flourishing and growing; in contrast, the vitality of Western Anglicanism is shrivelling in proportion to its obsession with homo-eroticism.