Bishop Alan Wilson courageously provides a priceless explication for us, titled "Swimmin with the Wimmin part 94". The title alone is worth noting. A brief quote, and you can read the rest over at Alan's blog.
The result, in true C of E fashion, is a curate’s egg, but probably not such a rotten one as to send the whole process around again in five years time.From Thinking Anglicans:
WATCH (Women and the Church) is deeply disappointed to hear that the all male House of Bishops has, in a closed meeting, decided to make two amendments to the draft legislation on women bishops that had been so carefully crafted after years of debate and scrutiny from all sides and had commanded the support of 42/44 dioceses across the Church of England.Read the rest of their press release, which makes much more sense to me than release from the House of Bishops meeting.
I remain in the dark as to how the amended legislation will play out in practice if it passes all three houses of GS with a two-thirds vote. We shall see.