How the world wants the church to bow down to it

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/get-with-the-programme-david-cameron-condemns-church-of-england-decision-to-block-women-bishops-8340352.html

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/church-of-england-in-crisis-archbishop-of-canterbury-attacks-members-for-voting-against-women-bishops-8339611.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/9693284/Women-bishops-a-failure-of-leadership.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2236579/PMs-rebuke-women-bishops-vote-Cameron-tells-Church-programme.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2237070/My-dear-old-mother-women-bishops-Monty-Python-moment-sink-C-E.html

Today, 21/11/12, is the day that persecution of the church by the state began.

"In a rare intervention into religious matters, David Cameron said he was “very sad” about the outcome and challenged the Church to “get with the programme”.

His comments came on a day of self-loathing for the established church with senior leaders, including the Archbishop of Canterbury, warning that the failure to confront institutional sexism threatens the church's very future.

In an impassioned speech at the General Synod – the last before his retirement next month – Dr Rowan Williams vividly illustrated the depth of the current crisis facing his organisation,admitting that the Church of England loses credibility every day it fails to approve women bishops.

“We have, to put it very bluntly, a lot of explaining to do,” he told delegates. “Whatever the motivation for voting yesterday, whatever the theological principle on which people acted and spoke, the fact remains that a great deal of this discussion is not intelligible to our wider society. Worse than that, it seems as if we are wilfully blind to some of the trends and priorities of that wider society.”

He added: ”We have some explaining to do, we have as a result of yesterday undoubtedly lost a measure of credibility in our society.“

During Prime Minister’s Questions, Mr Cameron backed MPs who attacked the Synod vote.

He told the Commons: “I’m a strong supporter of women bishops. I’m very sad about the way the vote went yesterday and I’m particularly sad for the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, because I know he saw this as the major campaign he wanted to achieve at the end of his excellent tenure of that office.”

He added: “I’m very clear the time is right for women bishops, it was right many years ago. They need to get on with it, as it were, and get with the programme.”
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So the Archbishop of Canterbury is a mouthpiece for the state.

To say that those in the church who tirelessly help the poor, the sick, the needy, who also believe that women should not be bishops are "wilfully blind to some of the trends and priorities of that wider society".  How can they be wilfully blind! It is obvious what the priority is for this wider society!

And let's remember that Cameron is also pro gay marriage.

Perhaps Christ's church is not the same as the Church. 

"Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. "