Church Of England

[anneasquith]

yes to female bishops...............well done . :)

[pixie373]

I agree, nj. When this was last on the news (2ish years ago?), I couldn't believe that women were being refused jobs just because they were women. How was that even legal? But also- why would a woman ever want anything to do with the church, anyway.

[ludwig]

// What it needs now is for all the women vicars to say "Thanks very much for your efforts, but after due consideration I don't really want to be part of an organisation which, until fairly recently, allowed women in only to make the tea and arrange the flowers and which makes such a song and dance about opening up its jobs to both genders." //

You're failing to understand the nature of religious belief there NJ. It's not like a golf club where you can just go and join a different one because you don't like the rules. You have to stick with the same organisation but lobby to change the rules you don't like.
Unless you're Henry viii of course.

[New Judge]

Yes well that attitude just about sums up the ridiculous view that prevails among those with fervent religious beliefs, Ludwig.

How any woman can condone the attitudes of an organisation that thinks so little of them and treats them with such contempt beggars belief. Graucho Marx is famous for saying that he would not want to belong to a club that would accept him as a member. Contrarily these women should say that they do no want to belong to a club that, until recently, did not want to accept them at all and only then (under pressure) to allow them in only at the lowest level.

[EDDIE51]

Will we still be able to use the phase 'Bashing the Bishop' for a J Arthur?