by Gavin Ashenden, TCW
CREDIT where it is due: at first sight it appears a great achievement to rise to the top of two professions.
Sarah Mullally deserves to be congratulated on having been Chief Nursing Officer of England and Wales and then, later in life, becoming the first woman Protestant Archbishop of Canterbury.
[…] However, having praised Sarah Mullally on her achievements, and in particular giving credit to her with gratitude for her vocal opposition in the House of Lords to euthanasia, her appointment inevitably provokes a reflection on what the consequences of adopting feminism might be for a Christian denomination.
Feminism is the soft edge of a dangerous political movement, rooted in cultural Marxism and committed to equality of outcome and suppression of criticism and opposition. It finds Christian orthodoxy anathema and seeks to undermine it, restrain it and change it whenever it can.
The link below shows a smirking Sarah Mullally refusing to answer a question at the Church of England General Synod about whether the Anglican bishops were willing to protect children from the sexualisation of Pride marches.
The answer was No.
More substantially, her repudiation of euthanasia needs to be set against her preference for feminist ethics over Christian ones, when she announced her position on abortion and gave her support for killing of unrequired babies in the womb, saying: ‘I would suspect that I would describe my approach to this issue as pro-choice rather than pro-live [sic]’.
Dr Calum Miller, a well-known public defender of the lives of the unborn, responded on X: ‘The Church of England had lost all moral credibility. It is over.’
The project of changing the Church of England’s teaching and practice to allow gay marriage was intended to be driven by the ‘Living in Love & Faith’ initiative which led to the approval of gay blessings in 2023. Sarah Mullally played a significant part in promoting that initiative; it is difficult to imagine that, along with most other proponents of gay blessings, privately she doesn’t want to see complete equality between homosexuals and heterosexuals in the area of marriage and move towards changing Church law.