pecusa strategy disclosed by the ENS

It has been pointed out that Matthew Davies from the Episcopal News Service wrote on April 3 that the Anglican Consultive Council is "the communion's main legislative body and the only instrument with the authority to ask the Anglican provinces to sign onto the covenant." This would appear to signal pecusa's strategy for stalling and hopefully (that is, it is hoped by pecusa liberals) killing the Anglican Covenant.

As has also been pointed out, Ephraim Radner said on a TitusOneNine comment thread:

"The ACC does not "own" this or any other covenant proposal. They can commend, not commend, decide to revise or not. But it is not their document. The Primates could commend it, or anyone else could. Provinces could adopt it with or without any Instrument's commendation. Obviously, it would be helpful if representative bodies from the broad range of the Communion's life chose to facilitate rather than deter covenanting at this point."

It should also be pointed out that the ACC is the most liberal of the four instruments of unity with a strong representation from liberal and declining provinces like pecusa. So, when the ACC meets, pecusa, the Anglican Church in Canada and other liberal provinces of the Anglican Communion can be counted on to try to slow if not stop the progress that is being achieved toward having a semblance of common beliefs and practices in the Communion. Stay tuned, this will be interesting.