I Told You So

The head of the Anglican church's hypocritical wing, having apparently spent the last couple of days getting his ruminations translated into English, has warned the bigoted wing that "demolishing existing structures" is not the answer to their concerns. Certainly it is not something Jesus would have done, or Henry VIII for that matter. As befits an appointee of Triangulating Tony, the Archbishop of Canterbury has spent most of his tenure treating homosexuals like second-class citizens, in order to throw a sop to those who might split the church. Naturally, the queer-bashers and male supremacists, having got their angel voices heard (and, incidentally, having the Bible and a couple of millennia of Judaeo-Christian tradition solidly on their side), have continued to push their agenda, and now feel powerful enough to set up a new Protestant sect, a church within the church, or a return to Genuine Anglicanism, depending on whom one believes. The Archbishop plans to "urge those who have outlined these [proposals] to think very carefully about the risks entailed". With splendid timing, the male supremacist wing chose today to deliver a letter from over 1300 clergy and eleven bishops, saying that the prospect of baby-factories turning bishop has left them "thinking very hard about the way ahead". Although they do not write "in a spirit of making threats or throwing down gauntlets", they do manage to hint that they'll take up their cassocks and walk unless the Church of England remembers what century it belongs in (Hint: the number of the century does not begin with a 2).

In my prophetic days, I did occasionally intimate that this sort of thing might happen; but even in these times of enhanced and government-sponsored Britishness, there are some without honour in their own country.