That’s the sum total of the argument to be found on a new site proclaiming “Anglicans for Comprehensive Unity”, a phrase whose oxymoronic message is aggravated by the uneasy proximity of “Anglicans” and “Unity”.

Anglican churches are being asked to adopt a so-called Anglican Covenant that seeks to bind them more tightly to one another and to codify procedures by which future disputes within the Anglican Communion will be resolved.

We believe that this covenant is ill-conceived. In response to the reputed “crisis” in the Communion, drafters of the covenant have favoured coercion over the hard work of reconciliation.

Of course, if it is only a “so-called” Covenant, not a real one and the crisis is only a “crisis” by repute, why even bother to set up a so called No Anglican Covenant Coalition? Must be because we don’t need no stinkin’ covenant.