Date published: 2008/07/08
The BBC says:
The Church of England's ruling General Synod has voted to consecrate women as bishops and approved a code of practice aimed at reassuring opponents.
However, the code will fall short of safeguards demanded by traditionalists, such as allowing male "super-bishops" to cater for those against the reforms.
Liberals said such moves would have created a two-tier episcopacy.
A Church group will now draw up a draft of the as-yet unspecified safeguards to put before Synod next February.
Some 1,300 clergy had threatened to leave the Church if safeguards were not agreed to reassure objectors.
So the Church has had one vote to join the 20th century. (They won't get around to joining the 21st century for quite some time.) Well this is at least good news. The argument of the detractors (labelled "traditionalists") was completely spurious. So, since Jesus had no female disciples, allegedly no woman could be a bishop (well, or a priest, as far as these people were concerned, but they already lost that argument). Well, Jesus had no British disciples either. But there's never been a problem having British bishops. Basically, the opponents are just sexist gits, and if they want to leave and join a sexist church like the Catholic Church, then let them.
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