Obviously, I have made comments regarding the problems in the Anglican church over whether or not to ordain out gays. I feel that it involves me for two reasons:
- The Christian Dominionist religious right (not Anglican) has aggressively spewed lies and hate on this issue as a part of a their larger agenda of establishing a fundamentalist theocracy in the US, which I consider a personal threat.
- Because in the 3rd world you have people who not only object to ordination, but they also call for bigoted crusades against gays that are arguably genocidal under UN definitions, which we are obliged as human beings to oppose.
That being said, on the matter of whether or not to make women Bishops in the chruch, it’s not my business, and neither is it the business of the Catholic Church, where Cardinal Walter Kasper, head of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Christian Unity, has officially condemned this decision.
I understand his perspective, that this might be an impediment between the future reunification of the churches, but the schism between the Church of England and the Church of Rome is 474 years old. There will never be a reunification. Not only has it been to long, but the people of England would never put themselves under the authority of Rome again out of nationalism.
So please, would people in all religions other then the Church of England who feel inclined to make official statements on this matter shut the F@#$ up! It’s none of anyone else’s damn business.