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Pudney said:
Which laws?
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Sunday opening hours, Gay marriage, Gay adoption, etc etc

A lot of laws date back to when Religion ruled, also known as the Dark ages because of how rubbish it was.

12 Church of England bishops sit in the House of Lords for crying out loud, its awful.
 
What dark age,
It was called the dark age as we knew hardly anything about it. Now we have discovered far more about that period of time, it was far from the dark ages, many envision.
 
hurfdurf said:
Sunday opening hours, Gay marriage, Gay adoption, etc etc

A lot of laws date back to when Religion ruled, also known as the Dark ages because of how rubbish it was.

12 Church of England bishops sit in the House of Lords for crying out loud, its awful.
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Aww, I love your posts. You're like some angry little dog that barks at anything that moves :D
 
Glaucus said:
What dark age,
It was called the dark age as we knew hardly anything about it. Now we have discovered far more about that period of time, it was far from the dark ages, many envision.
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I always thought it was the dark ages due to the loss of technology, laws, science etc that was lost with the withdrawal of the Romans from most of Europe.
 
hurfdurf said:
Sunday opening hours, Gay marriage, Gay adoption, etc etc

A lot of laws date back to when Religion ruled, also known as the Dark ages because of how rubbish it was.

12 Church of England bishops sit in the House of Lords for crying out loud, its awful.
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Sunday opening hours are supported by a wide range of people, not only the Church of England. And if that is an example of terrible lawmaking in the UK then we are doing pretty well IMO.

Also Gay adoption is legal in the UK, Gay Marriage is not only a religious question but a cultural one and there was no such time as the Dark Ages, and when it was refered to as that it was not because it was so rubbish, but because so very little was known about that period (hence it being dark).

And 26 (not 12...yet!) Bishops sit in the House of Lords, so what, they make up less than 4% of the House and represent a far larger percentage of the public (Members of the Church of England).
 
Pudney said:
I always thought it was the dark ages due to the loss of technology, laws, science etc that was lost with the withdrawal of the Romans from most of Europe.
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The Dark Ages didn't really exist and are more an invention of latter times when Romans became popular again.
 
Pudney said:
I always thought it was the dark ages due to the loss of technology, laws, science etc that was lost with the withdrawal of the Romans from most of Europe.
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Partially, it was an affectation of some historians (from some 17th century Catholic Historian whose name I cant recall) who coined the phrase due to there being a relative lack of written and oral information about the period and the perception that it was therefore also in decline economically and socially. It is now frowned upon to use the term exactly because we now know that despite the interregnum after the fall of the Roman Empire there was significant progress also.
 
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Nitefly said:
Because it's a change that really should be cultural and political as opposed to mandatory and legal.
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"Should" being the appropriate word. But it isn't working. We shouldn't need the equality act at all, equality should just be natural.

The problem is the heads of the churches do not want to catch up with the rest of western society. And its those people that choose the next heads.
 
Woden said:
"Should" being the appropriate word. But it isn't working. We shouldn't need the equality act at all, equality should just be natural.

The problem is the heads of the churches do not want to catch up with the rest of western society. And its those people that choose the next heads.
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I think that the point shown by the voting preferences in the Church of England actually show that the Heads of the Church do want progressive reform.
 
You just know that at least 3 of the people on Come Dine With Me will have a Pavlova as the dessert!
 
Has anybody poined out in this thread yet the tremendous irony that the Queen is the head of the CoE? I bet the no voters must quiver in their sleep every night while hugging their royal porcelain dinner set.

Sadly, conservative biblical perspectives tend to reference poor translations taken out of context and used to suit their own ends. Such is the effective implementation of bigotry.
 
I was interested to read that the small group in the House of Laity who voted against women bishops consisted mostly of those from the Catholic wing of the Church (that is, those who seek CofE subservience to Rome).
 
scorza said:
I was interested to read that the small group in the House of Laity who voted against women bishops consisted mostly of those from the Catholic wing of the Church (that is, those who seek CofE subservience to Rome).
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I am not really sure why the Anglo Catholic faction still exists to be honest. Why don't they just rejoin with the Catholic church?
 
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