Rid our consecrations of this protester, supporters of women bishops urge the Church of England
by Ruth Gledhill, Christian Today:
Campaigners for women’s ordination are calling on the Church of England to silence an objector who has interrupted the last four consecrations of women bishops.
Women and the Church has written to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, outlining why the objector’s protest during the liturgy “undermine the women being consecrated” – and all women, and therefore the Church as a whole.
The organisation wrote: “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.”
Two women diocesans and eight women suffragans have now been consecrated bishops in the Church of Engand.
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