Quite apart from anything else, they have contrived – through bungling, fudge and first-order ineptitude – to produce liturgy for same-sex relationships without properly deciding all the theological issues first. This was effectively admitted by Christopher Cocksworth – a bishop with a leading role in the process – as long ago as last February, if not quite in those precise words. It was a startling confession from one so intimately involved with this sorry farrago.