The Church of England continues to get its collective cassock in a twirl attempting to respond to the social changes beating down the cathedral door. The result is a dog’s breakfast of compromise and fudge that appears to please nobody. Female vicars are not allowed to be bishops but gay male priests can be if they promise to keep the Devil in their drawers, even those in a civil partnerships. God knows what they’ll say when marriage equality is introduced (and it will be). How is this to be monitored? Spy cameras in the boudoir of the bishop’s palace? Lie detectors at the altar? Early-morning electrodes for the lazy lob? The Old Testament evangelicals are spitting fire and brimstone, the traditionalists are defecting to the holier-than-thou papists and the lame liberals are tut-tutting all the way to the gay pub. The Church’s continuing self-flagellation over rumpy-bumpy between consenting males is laughable and yet the subject of girl-on-girl goings on is strangely absent from the debate. Lesbianism, it seems, doesn’t exist in Canon Law. You’d think that a church established out of political expediency would be more politically astute in these more egalitarian times. Surely they must know that few people care that much anymore?
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It sounds really insane! What to do… Oh, lesbianism doesn’t exist? Isn’t that what Queen Victoria said?!! 🙂 Deary me. “Rumpy-bumpy,” great expression!
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Folklore says she did. I suspect there’s little truth in it. ‘Rumpy bumpy’ is a glorious expression. Not original I’m afraid.
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If only the church could get its head out of its apse and concentrate on the supposedly central tenet of the faith – ‘love thy neighbour’. But lets not hold our breaths shall we?
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That presumes that religion is about faith. 😦
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Lesbianism? Has anyone figured out that females have had the vote for about a hundred years and are really PERSONS now. Might that be the problem?
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Could be!
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phnar phnar at the title!!
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😉
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I think I might swap over to a prayer mat. I’m embarrassed to be associated with such a wet weekend of a church.
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And prayers mats are so attractive (unlike most vicars) 😉
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