Church of England keeps distance from breakaway US conservative Episcopalians | World news | guardian.co.uk

Church of England keeps distance from breakaway US conservative Episcopalians | World news | guardian.co.uk: "The Church of England today offered the slenderest of lifelines to the dissident US conservative Episcopalians who split from their church after it elected a gay bishop.

The general synod – the church's parliament, meeting in London – passed a motion recognising the breakaway group's desire to remain Anglicans but declined to promise to ally with them in their ongoing wrangles with the mainstream US church.

In a two-hour debate, efforts by liberal supporters of the US Episcopal church failed in attempts to throw out or adjourn a motion supporting the breakaways, but succeeded in diluting it with the help of moderate bishops."