From here:
I’m sorry if this seems melodramatic, but the anger of the majority of bishops and clergy who supported this move ensures that the next Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, faces the prospect of an Anglican civil war. I won’t pretend that the decision makes much sense to me: a situation in which women can be bishops in most parts of the Anglican Communion but not its spiritual home is weird enough, but when you consider that the C of E allows women to be deacons, priests but not bishops… it’s an ecclesial mess of the most peculiar variety. Not just Archbishop-designate Welby but the majority of the Church’s bishops have had their authority diminished by this vote. Traditionalists and evangelicals have won a victory, of sorts, tonight, but I very much doubt that they will be allowed to enjoy it.
If the CofE bishops have had their authority diminished by this vote – and I really hope they have – it serves them right for being a bunch of out-of-touch, effete, stuck-up, ivory-tower panjandrums.
I quite agree with David’s ‘melodrama’.
Leadership (bishop and clergy) are directly and shamefully responsible for manipulative behaviours that have spanned decades – against the majority-come-minority within the CofE, NOT TO MENTION the shenanigans that have occured across the pond…
LEADERS listen well – you deserve this godly outcome – so I guess it’s back to the Drawing Room for you and your ilk.
And consider resignation for individuals more apt to defend the faith once for all delivered to the saints.
But … wasn’t this what they wanted? No, *swore* they wanted? When they ordained priestesses? They promised, they shouted, they asserted that it was perfectly fine to ordain women as priestesses, and that it didn’t necessarily mean that they would be bishops as well. I remember it well. I thought it was bunk but … they seemed so sincere!
Now they tell me that they were just lying?
Your are absolutely correct Roger. You were lied to. Turns out that women preists was a “thin edge of the wedge”.
Now is the time for the Faithful to firmly stand the ground, and publically declare the issue resolved. Not just for another five years, but forever. The Faithful should also publically state that if this ever comes up again that they shall have to “consider their options” including the RC Ordinariates, or even better seek “alternative Episcipal oversight” from the Anglican Church in North America.