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Tuesday, 8 July 2008
Women bishops
Dragged kicking and screaming - the Church has sort of voted for women bishops. Hurrah!
If the Church had wanted to preserve its tradition of male dominance - then fine (well not fine) - but it should have given up the 26 places for Bishops of the Church of England in the Lords: we shouldn't hand over a wedge of seats in our Parliament and say "men only".
So - from the brink - the Church creaks into the 21st century. I'm glad that they rejected the second class (for women) bishops and all the other equivocations that would have been all things to all men (literally).
I don't think we're quite there yet - but I did heave a sigh of relief that the vote went through. There are enough issues that the Church could get involved in in a helpful and constructive way. Their eternal obsession to keep women in their place and homosexuals at bay has no place in the modern world. No-one said change was easy - but it is necessary.
If the Church had wanted to preserve its tradition of male dominance - then fine (well not fine) - but it should have given up the 26 places for Bishops of the Church of England in the Lords: we shouldn't hand over a wedge of seats in our Parliament and say "men only".
So - from the brink - the Church creaks into the 21st century. I'm glad that they rejected the second class (for women) bishops and all the other equivocations that would have been all things to all men (literally).
I don't think we're quite there yet - but I did heave a sigh of relief that the vote went through. There are enough issues that the Church could get involved in in a helpful and constructive way. Their eternal obsession to keep women in their place and homosexuals at bay has no place in the modern world. No-one said change was easy - but it is necessary.
# Posted by Lynne Featherstone MP
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"There are enough issues that the Church could get involved in in a helpful and constructive way"
I think its worth pointing out that in a thousand different ways, with schools, soup kitchens, advice centres, refuges, charities etc the Church already does get involved!
And of course, a big hooray for the synod passing the women bishops legislation!
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I think its worth pointing out that in a thousand different ways, with schools, soup kitchens, advice centres, refuges, charities etc the Church already does get involved!
And of course, a big hooray for the synod passing the women bishops legislation!
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