{"id":21591,"date":"2014-06-04T21:52:56","date_gmt":"2014-06-05T01:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=21591"},"modified":"2014-06-04T21:52:56","modified_gmt":"2014-06-05T01:52:56","slug":"church-of-england-bans-clergy-from-bnp-and-national-front","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/church-of-england-bans-clergy-from-bnp-and-national-front\/","title":{"rendered":"Church of England bans clergy from BNP and National Front"},"content":{"rendered":"

Short of doing something both heinous and illegal, it is almost impossible for a Church of England vicar to be defrocked; until now. Vicars who join either the BNP<\/a> or National Front<\/a> political party will be sacked. There is little doubt that both parties are a blot on the landscape of British politics \u2013 but, then, so is the atheistic Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist)<\/a> and there is nothing preventing a vicar joining that party; in fact, Rowan Williams would probably have approved<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The reason given for the prohibition is that the parties are \u201cincompatible with the teaching of the Church of England\u201d, as if all the others are<\/em> compatible. Come to think of it, a male vicar marrying another man<\/a> is incompatible with church teaching, too, but the vicar in question is still employed.<\/p>\n

Once again, the church of tolerance and diversity demonstrates that it is no more tolerant that the most fundamentalist Biblical literalist it takes such delight in despising.<\/p>\n

From here<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Church of England clergy face being defrocked if they are found to be members of the BNP or National Front after bishops ruled that their views are un-Christian and promote the \u201csin of racism\u201d.<\/p>\n

It is the first time Anglican priests have formally been banned from membership of any political party.<\/p>\n

Bishops declared the two groups to be \u201cincompatible with the teaching of the Church of England\u201d because of their respective stances on \u201cequality of persons or groups of different races\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Short of doing something both heinous and illegal, it is almost impossible for a Church of England vicar to be defrocked; until now. Vicars who join either the BNP or National Front political party will be sacked. There is little … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[522,2089,1814],"class_list":["post-21591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-england","tag-bnp","tag-church-of-england","tag-national-front"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}