C of E: IRA Division

Published on February 17, 2005

After lengthy debate on whether women priests could be consecrated as bishops, the General Synod of the Church of England has resolved to continue discussing the matter at its next meeting in July. While ordained women at the meeting expressed their frustration at the slow progress of changing an inequity they called “embarrassing” to the […]

After lengthy debate on whether women priests could be consecrated as bishops, the General Synod of the Church of England has resolved to continue discussing the matter at its next meeting in July. While ordained women at the meeting expressed their frustration at the slow progress of changing an inequity they called “embarrassing” to the church’s image, many male opponents argued that it was the wrong time to introduce another controversial “cause” into the church, which is already struggling with a number of divisive issues. But a few staunch traditionalists wasted no time on such niceties as blaming the timing, getting right to the matter as they saw it: women priests are like IRA terrorists and they don’t really believe in God…

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