Women Bishops - synod rejects again

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.

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!

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

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

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

Time I went to sleep !!! Night all

Spouse accent, love it! [grin}

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

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

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.

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

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

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

This disgraceful result will do the C of E a lot of harm, making it look ridiculous and totally out of touch. I am very embarrassed, very angry and very shocked. I seriously thought it would go through this time. Do we really have another 10 years or more of this nonsense to go through? There are so many much more pressing and serious things to debate. There should be no question about women bishops. We need them. As with women priests, they will be entirely a good thing.

phoenix. You could get excommunificated for that.

wisewoman that has made me very, very I'm not a violent person, but that comment up there ^ makes me want to get hold of that woman, give her a damn good shaking, tie her to a chair and make her watch videos that show exactly how there are households that are NOT run by men, "Oh goodness me, are there really some women who can function without a man?* [fit of the vapours emoticon]

And maybe also draw the daft cows attention that women do now actually have the vote and the intelligence to use it!

Oh, and of course, male priests are ALL pillars of the community, whose word is law.

I'm about to indulge in a really good swear, please look away now if you don't want to see the result:

Shit bugger arsehole bugger wank poo.

So there.

wisewoman, I nearly drowned in the shower when I heard her saying that!

I feel so sad about this decision. [Sad] But I'm also confused. How can just a few people overturn a decision that was agreed by the clergy themselves? It's totally bonkers! How demoralising for the women who are clearly capable of taking on such roles - how belittling and how discriminatory. God must be shedding tears over the sorry mess.

I heard a woman lay member of the synod interviewed on BBC and she said these words "Male priests should be ultimate authority in the church as fathers are the ultimate authority in the home." I swear she said this in 2012 on the BBC. I was speechless.

I think that's a very good point, petallus.

OK, petallus, who have you got in mind. The priest from The Thorn Birds or Ballykissangel?

pretty resounding unanimous horror then?

I think that women priests are far less likely to find themselves arrested, as certain others of the cloth have been very recently!

I wish someone could explain why the church is allowed to actively discriminate, where other organisations could be prosecuted.

Even some job advertisements have to show a sort of disclaimer, for example one I saw recently for a supermarket check out job stated that they had been allowed dispensation with regard to age discrimination laws, as because alcohol was sold, all till operatives had to be over 18.

I suspect that for some women, male priests are romantic authority figures. Different dynamic if the priest is a woman.

Women - know your place!

UN- BE- LIEVE- ABLE