Should the church have women bishops ?

[modeller]

Two women were offering their opposing views on the radio today.

[woofgang]

Yes, why not, I heard some idiot woman yesterday saying that she thought the head of the church should be male like the head of the family (eye roll)

[sandyRoe]

What would the sisters and brothers in Christ in Africa think of this? Apart from the fact that it might lead to schism, why not?

[jomifl]

How will it affect chess.

[LoftyLottie]

ha, ha Woofy. 'Head of Family'. Do some people still talk about having a Head of Family?

[LazyGun]

Might be more inclined to ask for directions when navigating those diagonals maybe? :)

[andy-hughes]

I do Lottie - Head Office is away in Yorkshire working, but will be back tomorrow, so it's a quick tidy round and all dishes away tonight.

[LoftyLottie]

Funnily enough my OH (I, of course, am in charge) is up in Yorkshire today!!

[woofgang]

well this idiot woman on TV did...You could read her mind though...."my husband is head of the family and he has my permission to say so" and I wouldn't give much for her parish priest's chances of running things either.....

[craft1948]

.............and lovely he is too Lottie :-)

[DTCwordfan]

What I found remarkable was a comment on Newsnight on this, that it was urban parishes that were objecting to women bishops, urban centres being the domicile of the Anglo-Catholics. Rural parishes, which I would have thought would have been much more conservative in their views, were the ones supporting the motion.

Not that I am qualified to really comment finding the CoE so out of touch and religion getting largely up my left nostril, isn't it amazing that an institution manages to practice such sexually discriminatory or misogynistic behaviour in its senior management in these days of so called equality in the work-place.

I hope that the pros get the vote this afternoon.

[aelmpvw]

they'll want lady knights next jomifl

[modeller]

One of the arguements against it was that it would make it more difficult to join with RC. I would have thought many/most Anglicans would have thought that a good thing.

[woofgang]

well I certainly dont think its an argument for not doing it....there are loads of differences between C of E and RC

[chakka35]

Surely it's simple logic. Once the Church had overcome its misogeny and accepted women priests then the rest follows. What company would be allowed to say that women would be allowed to achieve middle management but not sit on the board?

Oops sorry, forgot for the moment that religion cares nothing for logic.

[FredPuli43]

Puzzling over what 'teaching of the Church' says that it's fine to have women as vicars but forbidden to have them as bishops. Does anyone have the text that says so?

[daisya]

It shows just how divisive religion is...how anyone gets on in a religious setting is beyond me. I thought any religion was all forgiving, all accepting...huh! Wrong! I don't know the answer, 'cept for me it's leave religion well alone....enough is enough and if the heirarchy cannot agree then all is lost IMO...jeez...what a farce it all is.

[baza]

listening to a local radio phone in, most of the callers were female and most of them were against women raising above parish duties, women bishops seem to be a no no , the male callers were about 50/50.

[mikey4444]

I can't see that it makes much difference. Its not the sex of the person, its what they say and, more importantly do that counts.

Its typical of the C of E that they would rather spend time and money arguing amongst themselves about piffling little things, rather than go out and do something useful

We have thousands of people living on the streets in Britain today, to say nothing of the hundeds of thousands, maybe millions that are living in abject poverty.

It would seem that there may be tens of thousands of children being sexually abused, on a daily basis.

The list of our woes is endless.

Why can't the representives of our organised religions get off their arses and tackle these problems ?

I am an atheist but I wouldn't mind betting that the person some people call Jesus wouldn't have faffed around, arguing how many angels can sit on the head of a pin.

Is it any wonder that religion is so ridiculed today !

[baza]

Fred I did hear a woman state that "God created man, He then created woman to be his helper", she said it is in the begining of the Bible.

[ethandron]

Wolfgang, I heard that idiot woman say that yesterday, nearly choked on my coffee. Sometimes other women are women's worst enemies :(