Not in My Father's Mansion's Back Yard

Ideally an established church ought to serve the whole nation, but for the protection of God's good name one must strain at the occasional gnat. Accordingly, the Church of England has tolerated gay-baiters, paedophiles and the occasional quasi-Catholic, but draws the line at eastern religions whose teachers speak in parables. A Zen meditation group is vacating the grounds of York Minster, having held meetings there for three years; its presence roused the indignation of at least one member of the general synod, who evidently felt that quiet contemplation "at one of the country’s best-known cathedrals" was lowering the tone for the gift shop. One evangelical group proclaimed that the miscegenation of Buddhism and Christianity was dishonouring Jesus; although some might be tempted to ask how the founder of an apostolic succession based explicitly on ignorance and genocide would have much honour to lose.