All Men Are Brothers, But Some Brothers Are More Manly Than Others

The Archbishop of Canterbury has finally made his choice and, a large congregation being better than a loving one, has plumped for Biblical homophobia over British hypocrisy. Homosexuals, like women, are welcome to come to church; the day may even come, as it has for some women, when a member of the true faith can accept a cup of tea from one without feeling unduly tainted; but as long as gay clergy continue to be ordained, and as long as gay Christians are having their sodomitic unions blessed by Anglican clergy, the church continues in "grave peril". The Archbishop hopes that the peril will be averted in a "covenanted future", in which the great moral question of who sleeps with whom will be dealt with by a "global church of interdependent communities", each of which, no doubt, will be right in its own little way. A meeting of all Anglican primates, including the neanderthals, will take place next year, so that those who boycotted the Lambeth mumble can "be involved in policy shaping". There can rarely have been a better time than the present in which to be a schismatic. If the misogynists truly wish to keep the pulpits clean of female bishops, they know now how to go about it.