Whoso Breaketh An Hedge, A Serpent Shall Bite Him

The Church of England, while continuing its arcane moral contortions over whether femininity is as bad as homosexuality from the episcopal point of view, seems to have caught up to the twenty-first century in a bit of a hurry on a slightly more significant moral problem. Having lambasted financiers for their lack of repentance over the economic crisis, the Church is now worried about a proposed European Union directive to regulate the doings of those same financiers. The directive, blubbered the Church Commissioners, will "significantly restrict our ability to generate funds to pursue our charitable missions and thus reduce our impact for public good", including "such expenses as pensions for the clergy". When the issue is a matter of money, rather than one of mere human rights for second-order clergy, second-order Christians and second-order human beings, it seems that the corpse has a bit of twitch in it still.