A conservative UK think tank has released a scathing report about the steep decline of the Church of England, blaming left-wing and gay militancy within ecclesial ranks for the what it terms an across-the-board collapse of membership in the church. The report calls for Anglican bishops to resign because of the catastrophe. Interestingly, part of the report was written by novelist Fay Weldon, a former secularist liberal and a recent Anglican convert, who writes that the C. of E. is “bent on self destruction,” and that Prince Charles was so enamored of Islam now “that the Church might well wish to disestablish itself in order to keep its distance.” Mercy!