A woman in your parish? Don't fear, the 'Flying Bishops' are here!

"Traditionalists" in the Church of England have threaterned to split and won a comprimise on women bishops. If a parish don't think women should have equality and can't be bishops then they can send in 'flying bishops', those 'flying bishops' will be unfortunate enough to be sent to the backward stone age parishes were the men who are there are unwilling to be working under a woman and for that woman to have authoritiy ove them.

Of course the men who dont want women bishops have turned to there usually excuse for their intoralance, the Bible, yep they claim that acording to the bible, women cannot be bishops, now I never read the bible, however I dont imagine that the bible would have "And God gave women small feet, so she could stand closer to the cooker and a smaller brain then man, and God spoke these words 'man is superior and can only be bishops, the church is a straight men only club' "

I just get the feeling that the people against this are probably men who feel inadequate and would feel even worse if they had a female boss, either that or they are a group of old dinosaurs unwilling to accept that times have changed, and now the sexes are meant to be equal (although that is a different debate entirely), I know that some people want the Church of England or any other religion organisation or faith for that matter, to be a conservative force in society, because they are terrified of changes, however the Church could be a force for reform and a positive force in society if the lunetics didn't run the asylum, or at least have a big clout, as the comprimise of 'flying bishops' shows they cleary have, since the CoE was scared of loosing 400 odd celergy, who threaterned to form there own church (the CoE would be better off without sexist, homophobic people like those anyway) the religions of the world are not brave enough to change or move forward.

The old dinosaurs who are against talk a lot of rubbish, one of my favourite quotes is

" If this was a commercial company we could claim for constructive dismissal and the Church of England cannot possibly argue for a church acting as a worse employer, a worse institution, than any secular one - it's outrageous. "

If the CoE was a commerical company then it would get have to treat women equal by law (and that is no bad thing) and I see no reason why the church should not have to treat women equally, this is the 21st century and not the 19th, get over it.


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