Female Bishops!
Posted by xJane on July 8th, 2008 at 7:13 am · 5 Comments
So…the Church of England has voted to allow female bishops. Which sounded awesome to me, despite the fact that those opposed to it have called those in favor of it “mean spirited” for disallowing “super bishops” (read: male bishops) for congregants that object to the authority of a female bishop. I’ll come back to that.
So my reaction was, “Cool! Progressive!” until I realized that the CoE has allowed female priests for some time. Second-class priests who were not allowed, like the super priests one might suppose, to become bishops. Which is just idiotic. If a class of people is fit for the priesthood, they are also fit for the bishopric. Denying the basic rights (rites? tee hee) of priesthood to a class of priests is only slightly better than denying priesthood to a class of people.
It’d be like saying, “You can be a priest, but you can’t baptize anyone.” or “You can be a doctor, but you can’t prescribe anything.”
So, female priests in the CoE are now actually priests. Which means some of them can become bishops. Which is, of course discriminatory against patriarchal misogynists who object to giving authority to women. They would like to allow anyone who objects to the authority of a female bishop to be able to instead report to a “super bishop”, one whose primary superpower would be possession of a penis. How mean spirited of those ghastly liberals to deny the basic right of hatred to those poor, oppressed Traditionalists. My heart just bleeds for them.
aside: I can’t wait for the first female Archbishop of Canterbury. Oh! how the sparks will fly then!
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