Re: The Awesomesauce with Religion
Reply #422 –
The Church of England accepted women priests in modern times and has ow agreed to female bishops but queer marriage is still not on. In Scotland the Church of Scotland has long had women clergy as has the Congregational tradition who were early movers. As for the church of Rome it did have married clergy until the middle ages until some old white socks in the Vatican decided that would stop. Instead for centuries they shut a blind eye to their clergy having it off in legions and not missing out on children either. Kind of hypocritical really. The former leader of the Romanists down in England (a cardinal) who died a few years ago stated publicly that refusing to let clergy marry was a man-made law (as we know) yet that Church still has 2% of it's standing clergy who are profligates. Indeed when one realises what 2% means in practice it is not just sad it is shocking.
A young nun I knew for a while admitted to me at a meal that she was all for married clergy and it must have been trying for her to keep her mouth closed inside the Roman corner.