changing denomination on principle
Some time back I blogged about Blackburn Cathedral’s well intentioned but not very successful attempt to please everyone. They have subsequently changed that decision, and are trying alternative ways to please everyone.
Meantime more angst and attempts to find ways to protect everyone’s integrity led to the announcement from Rome last week, and the decision by the Revision Committee to take two steps back on the synod recommendations about women bishops (which in my view, despite being legally allowable was unethical – either that or half the committee was asleep when they made the decision) .
This is highly complex stuff. It is a mistake to think that decisions can be made and detractors will simply have to like it or lump it (although that is, in effect, what is consistently demanded of women clergy). But how is it actually possible to meet the intricacies of all integrities? And how do you pick your way between those who are genuinely consicence stricken, and those who just hate women or gays and are stroppy enough to throw enough tantrums to get their own way?
The BBC has a report on various stories where people move denomination – or even country – for the sake of their own integrity.
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