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Post by fretslider on Jul 14, 2014 16:32:34 GMT -5
Women will be bishops in the Church of England after a historic vote in the General Synod, ending 40 years of wrangling. An overwhelming 81 per cent of Synod members backed the change, during the sitting in York, and 75 per cent of the laity supported the move. It clears the way for the first female clerics to be ordained as bishops by the end of this year, if the legislation is quickly ratified by Parliament. The vote also means that the next Archbishop of Canterbury or York could be a woman. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/10965458/Church-of-England-General-Synod-votes-for-women-bishops.htmlDelusional thinking is not a male preserve! |
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Post by beth on Jul 14, 2014 16:38:44 GMT -5
Women will be bishops in the Church of England after a historic vote in the General Synod, ending 40 years of wrangling. An overwhelming 81 per cent of Synod members backed the change, during the sitting in York, and 75 per cent of the laity supported the move. It clears the way for the first female clerics to be ordained as bishops by the end of this year, if the legislation is quickly ratified by Parliament. The vote also means that the next Archbishop of Canterbury or York could be a woman. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/10965458/Church-of-England-General-Synod-votes-for-women-bishops.htmlDelusional thinking is not a male preserve! I never understood the point of male only clerics in any religion. Why? Ah wait ... tradition .. that's usually the stated reason. |
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Post by fretslider on Jul 14, 2014 16:41:47 GMT -5
I never understood the need to believe in faerie stories
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Post by Tempus Fugit on Jul 15, 2014 2:56:19 GMT -5
Ironically, when the laity voted it down last time the majority of no votes were cast by - wait for it - women!
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Post by mouse on Jul 15, 2014 3:37:46 GMT -5
as I understand it..women played a large role easily equal to men in the early church
but it was the convocation of Nicene around the fourth century when it all became a man!!! thing
certainly in the early church women were equally persequted for their beliefes
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Post by fretslider on Jul 15, 2014 7:27:13 GMT -5
as I understand it..women played a large role easily equal to men in the early church but it was the convocation of Nicene around the fourth century when it all became a man!!! thing certainly in the early church women were equally persequted for their beliefes Mary Magdalen got a terrible rap Maybe she can be rehabilitated, but I doubt the women in the church will do it |
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