Female bishops in the Church of England

The Church of England has approved women as bishops:

http://anglicanfuture.blogspot.com/2008/07/cofe-synod-passed-motion-on-women-in.html

and

http://www.thinkinganglicans.org.uk/

I almost made a reference that the 'mother church' had decided to follow the path of it's 'child' (The Episcopal Church) in deciding it was after all, ok to consecrate females as bishops. Then I remembered the first bishop in TEC was actually consecrated by the Scottish Episcopal Church.

Nevertheless it is a striking development, there are quite a few evangelical clergy in the Church of England who are quite opposed to such a move. Since this vote just came through today it remains to be seen what exactly they will do.

This definitely puts another spin on the entire Anglican Communion, what with most of the provinces that hate TEC so much also being strongly opposed to female priests, much less female bishops. The horrors! They'd hate to have to actually listen to a woman or a gay man and treat them as an equal.