That is why Rowan Williams is looking so haggard nowadays.

She had expressed concern ... at the foolhardiness of the motorcycle riders, not for the safety of the vehicle she was traveling in.

The longer this sort of rhetoric goes on, the less people will make the effort to stay together with people they disagree with. I can't see them wanting to leave each other alone.

The easy solution is to live with difference. That's always been how Anglicanism has coped with disputes in the past ... But that is not an easy thing to do.

Mutual respect and courtesy is one of the things that holds this vague organization together and that is in short supply.