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| Can I suggest that the Guardian stops putting the doings of the Church of England on its front page (Ruling that gay clergy can be bishops reignites church feud, 5 January)? Giving them the oxygen of publicity will only reinforce their idea that they remain relevant. Having insulted the entire female population over the issue of women bishops, they now do the same to the gay community by condescendingly agreeing to give them a measure of equality, but only as long as they don't actually engage in their disgusting version of the act of love. On both these issues, the church will bleat that, underneath its apparent misogyny, homophobia and general bigotry, real progress is being made towards enlightenment. Of course, this enlightenment is theirs not ours, as most of us moved way beyond them decades ago. So please, can you print their next cock-up (if you'll excuse the expression) on a much later page? Near the obituaries, perhaps? Alan Clark London | Can I suggest that the Guardian stops putting the doings of the Church of England on its front page (Ruling that gay clergy can be bishops reignites church feud, 5 January)? Giving them the oxygen of publicity will only reinforce their idea that they remain relevant. Having insulted the entire female population over the issue of women bishops, they now do the same to the gay community by condescendingly agreeing to give them a measure of equality, but only as long as they don't actually engage in their disgusting version of the act of love. On both these issues, the church will bleat that, underneath its apparent misogyny, homophobia and general bigotry, real progress is being made towards enlightenment. Of course, this enlightenment is theirs not ours, as most of us moved way beyond them decades ago. So please, can you print their next cock-up (if you'll excuse the expression) on a much later page? Near the obituaries, perhaps? Alan Clark London |
| • I wonder whether the C of E hierarchy ever stops to consider what its invasion of privacy does for people. The idea that we should become bedroom inspectors fills me with (Christian) horror. I have been happily married for 56 years. Nobody, in church or out, has ever asked me for details of our sex life. If they did, I hope I'd tell them to mind their own business! One's private behaviour is nobody else's business. It is within the confines of an individual's conscience. For God's sake (literally), let us move on and allow individuals to practise what is, for them, behaviour confined to their private life. John Pottinger Middlesbrough | • I wonder whether the C of E hierarchy ever stops to consider what its invasion of privacy does for people. The idea that we should become bedroom inspectors fills me with (Christian) horror. I have been happily married for 56 years. Nobody, in church or out, has ever asked me for details of our sex life. If they did, I hope I'd tell them to mind their own business! One's private behaviour is nobody else's business. It is within the confines of an individual's conscience. For God's sake (literally), let us move on and allow individuals to practise what is, for them, behaviour confined to their private life. John Pottinger Middlesbrough |
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