Jack,

To the vast majority of us it doesn't.  While few of us wish it to be a 
confessional document (and that Joint Statement avoids calling it such), 
most of us respect and esteem its place among our formularies and its 
historical role within Anglicanism.  At the same time, most of us don't give 
the Articles a primary role among those formularies, as though all the 
others somehow had to conform to them.  To the best of our abilities, we 
attempt to remain faithful to the formularies as a whole, as spelled out in 
our Solemn Declaration.

Mark+