[generally]

The article doesn’t really do a very good job of answering the question. It mostly discusses the politics of the issue and who was on which side. I was hoping to see a more well-reasoned discussion for and against.

[wideawake]

If the question is why the CofE voted against women "bishops", the answer is that they were unable to get a two-thirds vote in each House of the Synod to approve it.

Their Synod has three houses: Bishops (10% of votes), Clergy (42%) and Laity (46%).

94% of bishops voted for it, 77% of clergy voted for it, but only 64% of the laity voted for it.

So the laity were unable to get their support up to 67%.

6 votes shy.

The reasoning of the dissenters falls into two camps: the Anglo-Catholic perspective and the evangelical perspective.

The Anglo-Catholic argument would be from Scripture, right reason and Apostolic tradition.

The evangelical argument would be directly from Scripture and likely indirectly from right reason.