{"id":364,"date":"2008-07-07T11:48:10","date_gmt":"2008-07-07T10:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/?p=364"},"modified":"2014-04-17T10:55:48","modified_gmt":"2014-04-17T09:55:48","slug":"women-bishops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/archives\/364","title":{"rendered":"Women Bishops"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>The York meeting will decide whether to accommodate opponents to women bishops and if they could opt to remain under the ministry of male bishops instead. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk\/7492584.stm\">BBC News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I may be missing something but I don&#8217;t see what all the fuss is about. Whatever your opinion, there is already a system in place to accommodate you. After the Women priests decision some 15 years ago dissenters had a special provision made for them. If your church wanted to stick to the old ways then, after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forwardinfaith.com\/about\/uk_resolutions.html\">certain procedures<\/a> were completed, you could elect to come under the authority of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebbsfleet.org.uk\/\">Bishop of Ebbsfleet<\/a> rather than the Diocesan. Now, presuming that those who object to Women Bishops are a smallish superset of those, surely the same procedure can apply and, in the majority of cases, is probably already in effect. I suppose that there may be a small minority who approve of one but disapprove of the other but it would hardly be worth making a lot of fuss over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The York meeting will decide whether to accommodate opponents to women bishops and if they could opt to remain under the ministry of male bishops instead. BBC News I may be missing something but I don&#8217;t see what all the fuss is about. Whatever your opinion, there is already a system in place to accommodate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1855,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions\/1855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}