Responses:

The reactions and responses have begun. I do not intend to attempt to post all such responses – go to Thanking Anglicans or Titusonenine for that.
Ruth Gledhill, The Times Religion Correspondent. I love the picture posted on her entry – a nuclear mushroom cloud behind Canterbury Cathedral(?).

“‘Chilling,’ is how Kendall Harmon described it, warning that schism now was even closer than before.”

And

“The members of the committee set up to look at this under the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams were the Archbishop of Central Africa Bernard Malango, the Archbishop of Wales Barry Morgan (one of three Primates not in Tanzania), Chancellor Philippa Amable, Province of West Africa and Canon Elizabeth Paver of the Church of England. It is interesting that Elizabeth Paver is a highly-respected General Synod member but extremely orthodox and an opponent even of the ordination of women priests. If she is on the group and the group has decreed that TEC has passed muster, I reckon that is pretty significant.” (emphasis mine)