Women Bishops - synod rejects again

You have a TV in the shower anno?

Joking aside I too wanted to throttle her. It wasn't just her inane remarks but the smug and beatific expression on her face that made me

Love your SBABWP phoenix

nanad, radio 4 on in bathroom while performing morning ablutions.

Thank you Nanadog luckily I didn't see the stupid cow who has probably set progress back by decades lady mentioned, but I stand by my stand (!) on this, why should the damn church be exempt from laws just because it's always been that way!

DOUBLE SHIT BUGGER ARSEHOLE ETC, PLUS OTHER WORDS

anno of course, that makes sense.
phoenix I have over the course of the last three months since I joined GN appreciated your posts and your way with wirds. Never more though that just now.

I'm off to sleep with a smile inside.

WIRDS = WORDS ...said with a spouse accent ( only I'm not..a Mickey Mouser that is)

A spouse accent! That's a new one....

Spouse accent, love it! [grin}

Time I went to sleep !!! Night all

So this is what it takes to break the self-imposed ban on naughty words in GN!

Comment in the Guardian reckons the CofE has just committed suicide. What a bunch of prejudiced nitwits it is, that synod thing. Pompous twits.

At least we all get a chance to practise spelling disestablishmentarianism...

Oh dear - what utter dinosaurs! When I first read about the lost vote, i assumed it was blokes voting against it, men who imagined their balls would drop off if women got the power they deserve. But women!! They are the uncle, I mean auntie Toms of the gender battle. Whimps!

I guess the dinosaur brigade have been politicking away, getting themselves seats on synod, while the sane majority have not.
Twenty years of ordaining women priests and the sky does not appear to have fallen - but none of them can become bishops. I remember Anne Widdecome (sp?) (who on earth is that woman!!!) being interviewed and saying she was going to leave the Anglican church over it.
I reckon amend the religious category exemption from the sex discrimination act and let em sue! But can you imagine the ruffled feathers that would cause in other forms of religions (nearly all of them sexist to the core) so no government would do that.

I cannot believe it! You have all
said exactly what I think, and Phoenix you are so right; it wouldn't be allowed anywhere else. How CAN other women be so spectacularly stupid?

Very very very bad words!

I wonder if a lot of this opposition has come from the militant tendency evangelical wing of the C of E. They are the ones that seem to be into submiting to husbands, anti gay etc etc.

phoenix

As a member of the C of S (no bishops, women ministers but only one female Moderator so far - ridiculous) I feel so sorry for the women C of E priests who have been thwarted again, particularly when the clergy have gone for it this time. It was sad to see so many in tears again - how much more rejection do they have to put up with? and [hugs] for any GNer who is a priest or close to one.

Hear hear. Even if they have no interest in the job, it is a poke in the eye for the contribution they are making.

Clergy AND Bishops in favour, laity against, especially female laity. I blame St Paul of Extreme Misogyny.

Good words phoenix – just a bit more extreme than pee, po, belly, bum, drawers of Flanders and Swann fame.

As an atheist I couldn't give a fig what the Church of England does with its inner workings, but as a woman I am indignant.

Even in the House of Laity, where they needed a 2/3 majority, the pro-side only lost by six votes. And over the Synod as a whole, the majority was 74%.

Compare and contrast with the election of Police Commissioners…

Like absent I also don't give a fig about the inner workings of the C of E, but I'm indignant that we'll have to hear about it for the next 10 years!

Rowan Williams was NOT impressed, by the sound of it.

I caught a bit on Jeremy Vine where some daft old bat said she thought women lack the necessary leadership qualities (or words to that effect).

Unless I'm mistaken, isn't the head of the Church of England a woman?

Well the chap in the Guardian seems to have got it about right.

These dinosaurs have an automatic right to sit in our legislature even though this ruling is (in any other walk of life) illegal. I am sure that the calls to get rid of bishops in the H of L will become more strident now - hooray say I!

What a kick in the teeth for those women clergy who have proved themselves in the area of pastoral care. I am agnostic, but still feel angry on their behalf.

It is really quite scary that the fundamentalist/evangelical wing is allowed to wield such power.

Good T-shirt shown for several seconds on the BBC News just now - said something like
"Christ was an equal opportunities employer - Pity about the Church"