Good point and well made.

Of course, I care about as much as I care if we have a gay bishop.

They all seem to wear dresses anyway so why not. :wink:

Ditto, both catholisism (sp) and the church of england are dying out within britain (slowly but surely) this might be a way to get more in the collection plates rather than to bring the church forward a hundred years

No, dunno why it just doesn't seem right.

so u lot don't really care then :roll: . oh well no matter cosi don't really that much, just think it would be a huge step forward for them.

I do of course.

I think it's fairly simple, (which is good or it'd be beyond me entirely), the rules of the club - The Holy Bible - , preclude women and gays from becoming holders of club office, (as I understand it, not really kept up on my Bible studies), now I'm not a member of the club, but if that's what the rules say that's what they say, and it seems fairly black and white.
What with The Bible being the word of God it can't be incorrect, so if you want to be a club officer, and you are either gay or female you'll have to start your own independant and slightly altered rules version of the Club.

It's ok, they've already done that, so it won't be a big problem.

I don't think that it does, actually. Most of these church rules are simply historical conventions and not biblical teachings at all. Not that I know much about the bible either, though I do know that there's nothing about gays in the new testament - which is what christianity is based on. Which makes me wonder why homosexuality is one of the most debated topics in the church. I think that the church is going to be torn apart by the divisions between modernisers and traditionalists.

TBH i dont know why this subject is getting as much coverage as it is. We have a very prominant and real danger on our doorstep, surely we should be discussing that, not if a religion is having a tiffle inside its own organisation.

I voted yes. I'm a member of the Church of England. The happy clappy end, not the Anglo-Catholics. I dispute that it's irrelevant, nor is religion a social control mechanism. I see no reason not to have women bishops. We had a woman prime minsister, why not a woman bishop? Isn't it all about personal leadership qualities, why does the fact that she has boobs and no william make any difference at all????