WOMEN BISHOPS ENDGAME?
The Synod Laity voted against women bishops
causing some M.P.’s to consider disestablishment.
Meanwhile the C. of E.’s Parliamentary spokesman
belongs to the men-only Garrick Club!
It’s puzzling how the voters at Synod,
Interpreted the guidance from their God;
In that all those who prayed to Him on high,
Did not get an identical reply!
Misogynists declared that ‘Way back then’,
All the disciples Jesus led were men;
But realists say that those He had to choose,
Historically weren’t Christians but were Jews!
And as such that the truth can’t be disguised,
That He and all the Twelve were circumcised;
Which for most Christians must fill them with gall,
And be ‘the most unkindest cut of all’! (1)
Thus the deliberations at Church House,
Took flight alike the Oozlum Woolly Grouse; (2)
With voters tying-up themselves in knots,
Attempting to join-up faith’s backward dots!
The fate of women bishops in this age,
Will, therefore, seem to some a petty rage;
With their ‘ecclesiastic parity’,
Part of their of world of unreality.
Why exercise the question of which sex,
Allegedly that Canon Law rejects?
When it’s writ-large that such religious kind,
Are suffering delusions of the mind!
With Westminster now rumbling with dissent,
(And some suggesting disestablishment!)
The Members of The House can surely see,
Another problem -The S.C.E.C.
The Second Church Estates Commissioner, (3)
Who represents the Church at Westminster;
Belongs to the men-only Garrick Club—
Perhaps the Laity will want a sub?!
(1) Shakespearean grammar.
(2)A variant of the Oozlum Bird, a fabled creature
that flies backwards in ever-decreasing circles
until it disappears up its own fundament.
(3) Sir Tony Baldry M.P.
© Richard Layton
The Synod Laity voted against women bishops
causing some M.P.’s to consider disestablishment.
Meanwhile the C. of E.’s Parliamentary spokesman
belongs to the men-only Garrick Club!
It’s puzzling how the voters at Synod,
Interpreted the guidance from their God;
In that all those who prayed to Him on high,
Did not get an identical reply!
Misogynists declared that ‘Way back then’,
All the disciples Jesus led were men;
But realists say that those He had to choose,
Historically weren’t Christians but were Jews!
And as such that the truth can’t be disguised,
That He and all the Twelve were circumcised;
Which for most Christians must fill them with gall,
And be ‘the most unkindest cut of all’! (1)
Thus the deliberations at Church House,
Took flight alike the Oozlum Woolly Grouse; (2)
With voters tying-up themselves in knots,
Attempting to join-up faith’s backward dots!
The fate of women bishops in this age,
Will, therefore, seem to some a petty rage;
With their ‘ecclesiastic parity’,
Part of their of world of unreality.
Why exercise the question of which sex,
Allegedly that Canon Law rejects?
When it’s writ-large that such religious kind,
Are suffering delusions of the mind!
With Westminster now rumbling with dissent,
(And some suggesting disestablishment!)
The Members of The House can surely see,
Another problem -The S.C.E.C.
The Second Church Estates Commissioner, (3)
Who represents the Church at Westminster;
Belongs to the men-only Garrick Club—
Perhaps the Laity will want a sub?!
(1) Shakespearean grammar.
(2)A variant of the Oozlum Bird, a fabled creature
that flies backwards in ever-decreasing circles
until it disappears up its own fundament.
(3) Sir Tony Baldry M.P.
© Richard Layton
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