14/07/14 FEMALE BISHOPS AT LAST - UPDATE TO PREVIOUS POST
ttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-28300618
Today sees some good news and about time too. Having expressed my exasperation in late 2012, it’s important to set the record straight now. We have all had to wait 20 months for the sensible outcome that we always should have had but at least it’s here now (and it didn't take seven years either). Women can be ordained as bishops and I am sure the Church of England will be a better organisation for it.
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HRH, the CofE, female bishops and Derren Brown - 22/11/12
The news this week that the Church of England (CofE) has refused to ordain female bishops, and that the decision will not be re-considered for another seven years, is as disappointing as it is tragic. That decision came despite the public, the clerical majority (including the Archbishop of Canterbury) and the politicians being in favour of reform.
In the Tudor times, Henry VIII broke from the catholic faith and established the CofE in order to bypass the Vatican’s rule and I can’t help but think that our queen maybe needs to wield her power over the church that she is the head of. It’s okay to have a female as the figurehead of the church and the country and yet a woman can’t be ordained as a bishop! This is ridiculous and in my opinion an embarrassment for the United Kingdom.
I have read comment that the decision was based upon keeping the CofE and all its denominations united (as opposed to weakening the infrastructure of the church - which is apparently less desirable than bigotry) but the decision will only be viewed as discrimination towards women because the outcome is only expressed as ‘no female bishops’.
Discrimination, whether sexual or racial, is being forced out of society by legislation and the judicial system and yet the CofE is apparently immune – I have some faith that will change.
How can women be less deserving of the highest religious posts? I genuinely don’t get it.
On a separate but related point, Derren Brown presented a very different view of faith in his show last Friday night - he was able to manufacture a religious epiphany in an atheist through mental manipulation. Fascinating and disturbing in equal measure.
People may watch Derren and question the nature of faith and then find themselves questioning the nature of the organisation that overseas their faith too. And, the CofE, in making the wrong decision about female bishops, just plays into the hands of its detractors.
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The news this week that the Church of England (CofE) has refused to ordain female bishops, and that the decision will not be re-considered for another seven years, is as disappointing as it is tragic. That decision came despite the public, the clerical majority (including the Archbishop of Canterbury) and the politicians being in favour of reform.
In the Tudor times, Henry VIII broke from the catholic faith and established the CofE in order to bypass the Vatican’s rule and I can’t help but think that our queen maybe needs to wield her power over the church that she is the head of. It’s okay to have a female as the figurehead of the church and the country and yet a woman can’t be ordained as a bishop! This is ridiculous and in my opinion an embarrassment for the United Kingdom.
I have read comment that the decision was based upon keeping the CofE and all its denominations united (as opposed to weakening the infrastructure of the church - which is apparently less desirable than bigotry) but the decision will only be viewed as discrimination towards women because the outcome is only expressed as ‘no female bishops’.
Discrimination, whether sexual or racial, is being forced out of society by legislation and the judicial system and yet the CofE is apparently immune – I have some faith that will change.
How can women be less deserving of the highest religious posts? I genuinely don’t get it.
On a separate but related point, Derren Brown presented a very different view of faith in his show last Friday night - he was able to manufacture a religious epiphany in an atheist through mental manipulation. Fascinating and disturbing in equal measure.
People may watch Derren and question the nature of faith and then find themselves questioning the nature of the organisation that overseas their faith too. And, the CofE, in making the wrong decision about female bishops, just plays into the hands of its detractors.
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