{"id":31435,"date":"2012-11-20T12:11:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-20T19:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/20\/church-of-england-votes-down-women-bishops-for-now.html"},"modified":"2012-11-20T12:11:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-20T19:11:00","slug":"church-of-england-votes-down-women-bishops-for-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/20\/church-of-england-votes-down-women-bishops-for-now.html","title":{"rendered":"Church of England votes down women bishops (for now)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A sad story, IMO &#8230; especially since the failure to make it happened came from the laity, not the clergy or bishops themselves. An interesting glimpse into the polity of the CoE, in terms of what it takes to vote such things in, as well as some of the potential pitfalls of being an Established church.<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images1-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?url=http:\/\/i.telegraph.co.uk\/multimedia\/archive\/02404\/bishop_2404545k.jpg&#038;container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;rewriteMime=image\/*&#038;refresh=31536000&#038;resize_h=150&#038;resize_w=150&#038;no_expand=1' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/religion\/9689903\/Crisis-as-Church-of-England-votes-against-women-bishops.html'>Crisis as Church of England votes against women bishops &#8211; Telegraph<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Church of England has been plunged into its biggest crisis for decades after the General Synod rejected women bishops despite overwhelming support for the change.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/edKS34bHUMK' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sad story, IMO &#8230; especially since the failure to make it happened came from the laity, not the clergy or bishops themselves. An interesting glimpse into the polity of the CoE, in terms of what it takes to vote such things in, as well as some of the potential pitfalls of being an Established &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/20\/church-of-england-votes-down-women-bishops-for-now.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Church of England votes down women bishops (for now)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13157,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/07\/08\/the_bishop_of_dibley.html","url_meta":{"origin":31435,"position":0},"title":"The Bishop of Dibley?","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 8-Jul-08 6:43am","format":false,"excerpt":"While the Episcopal Church has been internally struggling over ordination of gays, our brethren in the Church of England are still fighting the women's ordination debate. 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