Let Us Reason Together

Since the Conservative Party prefers to inflict pain and trauma on an income-related basis, a failed candidate for the leadership has written to her local bishop urging him to support equality of marriage rights within the Church of England. Although the Church has already defied the Bible's teaching by collaborating at the abolition of slavery and permitting the wearing of tattoos and mixed fabrics, it remains all of a tizzy about people having the wrong sort of sex; by contrast, the former party of Section 28 and Hang Mandela will happily sell its tolerance to any minority with appropriate means of payment. With an access of moral and intellectual honesty worthy of Lambeth Palace, the leader of the House of Commons dispatched her episcopal epistle the day before her patron made clear his own opposition to making life any easier for trans people.