Acclamation, assent and disruption
by David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK:
This post gives further consideration to the Press Release issued by WATCH (Women and the Church) on 20 July, which commented on the presence of objectors at the consecration of female bishops, and hoped that at the next consecration of female bishops, “things will be arranged differently”.
The Press Release quoted from a letter sent by WATCH to the Archbishops of Canterbury which said:
“…such interruptions create the perception that the Church is willing to allow a woman who has been called by God and the Church, and appointed by the Crown, to be publicly insulted and undermined. If that is so, it undermines and insults all women: and especially women for whom female bishops are potent symbols of a radical shift in the Church’s treatment of women. ‘Maybe things haven’t changed at all, underneath’, they might conclude.”
The Press Release asked supporters to write to Cathedral Deans, who carry the responsibility for what happens within the buildings concerned, and to the Archbishop of Canterbury [but, strangely, not the Archbishop of York].
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