The ‘disturbingly disingenuous’ claims of many bishops
February’s General Synod vote to welcome the House of Bishops’ proposals was momentous and has thus provoked strong reactions.
Christopher Cocksworth, the Bishop of Coventry and leader of the Living in Love and Faith process, observed: ‘The proposed provision has united a broad alliance of evangelical networks, and some significant catholic voices, in suspicion, bewilderment, consternation and, among most [of] the evangelical spectrum, rejection.’