A husband and wife are on the 9th green when suddenly she collapses from a heart attack! "Help me dear," she groans to her husband.
The husband calls 911 on his cell phone, talks for a few minutes, picks up his putter, and lines up his putt. His wife raises her head off the green and stares at him.
"I'm dying here and you're putting?"
"Don't worry dear," says the husband calmly, "they found a doctor on the second hole and he's coming to help you.
"Well, how long will it take for him to get here?" she asks feebly.
"No time at all," says her husband. "Everybody's already agreed to let him play through."
Saturday, 21 January 2012
THERE'S A BETTER HOME A-WAITING IN THE SKY
ETTA JAMES
Blues, rhythm and blues,
rock and roll, soul,
gospel and jazz singer
January 25, 1938
– January 20, 2012
JIMMY CASTOR
Singer and saxophonist
Doo-Wop, Soul and Funk
June 23, 1940 –
January 16, 2012
The Wallflower (Roll With Me Henry) - Etta James And The Peaches
Seven Day Fool - Etta James
I Promise - Jimmy Castor And The Juniors
A Sunday Kind Of Love - Etta James
I Just Want To Make Love To You - Etta James
Block Party - Jimmy Castor
Just You Girl - Jimmy Castor
Sookie Sookie - Etta James
Out On The Street Again - Etta James
Hey, Leroy, Your Mama's Callin' You - Jimmy Castor Bunch
Bad - Jimmy Castor Bunch
Mama Told Me - Etta James
Do Right Woman Do Right Man - Etta James
Troglodyte (Cave Man) - Jimmy Castor Bunch
I'd Rather Go Blind - Etta James
My Brightest Day - Jimmy Castor Bunch
At Last - Etta James
DAVE ALEXANDER
a.k.a. Omar Sharriff,
Omar Hakim Khayam and
Omar The Magnificent
Blues singer
and pianist
March 10, 1938 –
January 8, 2012
Friday, 20 January 2012
LOUD FRIDAY
Here's some first rate, loud, anarchic punk from Gallic rockers, Louis Lingg And The Bombs.
I apologise for the unacceptable language during parts of this recording. There's nothing I can do about it. I keep telling them not to but the French will insist on speaking French :-)
BAND'S WEBSITE
IF IT WASN'T FOR ALAN TURING...
Human beings say some downright silly things at times. Near the top of any list of often repeated twaddle I would place the phrase, "One person cannot change the world." Not only is this obviously incorrect it is the exact opposite of the truth. All change begins with one person doing or saying something and sometimes that one person's action is so unique and influential that it would be highly unlikely that the change in question would ever happen without that one person.
Alan Turing was a genius. In fact, he was probably the greatest English genius since Isaac Newton. During his tragically short life he was primarily responsible for five major achievements. He invented digital computing. He cracked the Nazi's Naval Enigma Code. He started people thinking about the possibility of artificial intelligence which in turn led to new thinking in neuroscience. He introduced mathematics into evolutionary theory and got a British government to apologise for the way British society and its legal system at the time persecuted and killed him just because he was gay.
In 1952 Alan naively reported a burglary to the police. An aspect of his particular genius was that he was incapable of telling a lie or even dissembling the truth. So, he matter of factly told the police that he was living with a nineteen year man and that they had enjoyed mutual masturbation together on a small number of occasions. The police immediately forgot about the burglary and prosecuted Alan for gross indecency. At his trial where, of course, Alan pleaded guilty, he was offered the choice of imprisonment or chemical castration. He chose the latter option. This meant that he had to take estrogen tablets everyday and this led to the feminisation of his body, the shrivelling of his testicles so that his body no longer produced testosterone, impotency and, worst of all from Alan's point of view, he lost his mental ability to concentrate. He had been promised that when he stopped taking the pills that his body would revert back to how it was before he started taking them. His body didn't. On the seventh of June, 1954, Alan committed suicide, probably by eating an apple laced with cyanide, at the age of forty one.
We tend to regard hate crimes as a personal thing, concerning only the individual victim, his or her immediate family and close friends. It is only in extreme cases of organised bigotry, such as the various Nazi genocides, that we see a much bigger picture. But all hate crimes effect the whole of the society in which they take place and can often be internationally relevant. This is because any violent act effects, and in the case of murder, completely precludes, the victim's future potential. In the case of Alan Turing I suggest that his suicide (institutional murder) had a devastating effect on the potential for British science, industry and national wealth.
Let's play a game of "What if?"
What if Alan Turing had committed suicide before World War II?
I think it is very unlikely that anybody would have broken the Enigma Code before it was too late. Not only would this have meant that the British people would have slowly starved and not had the resources to defend themselves against invasion, it would also have, most likely, meant that the D-Day Landings would not have been possible. What this would have meant for the people of the world, especially Europeans, is something that is terrifying to contemplate. It is also very likely that I would not be here typing this blog post.
So, we can reasonably predict various potential outcomes if Alan had taken his own life fifteen years before he actually did. Therefore, we can also, reasonably predict various potential outcomes if Alan had not taken his own life in 1954. I think it is reasonable to posit that if Alan had lived to a ripe old age, computers, as we know them today, would have been invented far earlier, that Manchester University would have become the "Silicon Valley" of the world and that Britain would be the locus of new technology development and a heck of a lot richer and more influential than it now is.
In other words, one minor act of institutional homophobia, at a time when such acts were commonplace, possibly ended up effecting the lives of millions of people in an adverse way as well as removing the possibility of goodness knows what as far as the collective knowledge of the human race is concerned.
Homophobia not only kills individual people
- it kills the future for us all.
We tend to regard hate crimes as a personal thing, concerning only the individual victim, his or her immediate family and close friends. It is only in extreme cases of organised bigotry, such as the various Nazi genocides, that we see a much bigger picture. But all hate crimes effect the whole of the society in which they take place and can often be internationally relevant. This is because any violent act effects, and in the case of murder, completely precludes, the victim's future potential. In the case of Alan Turing I suggest that his suicide (institutional murder) had a devastating effect on the potential for British science, industry and national wealth.
Let's play a game of "What if?"
What if Alan Turing had committed suicide before World War II?
I think it is very unlikely that anybody would have broken the Enigma Code before it was too late. Not only would this have meant that the British people would have slowly starved and not had the resources to defend themselves against invasion, it would also have, most likely, meant that the D-Day Landings would not have been possible. What this would have meant for the people of the world, especially Europeans, is something that is terrifying to contemplate. It is also very likely that I would not be here typing this blog post.
So, we can reasonably predict various potential outcomes if Alan had taken his own life fifteen years before he actually did. Therefore, we can also, reasonably predict various potential outcomes if Alan had not taken his own life in 1954. I think it is reasonable to posit that if Alan had lived to a ripe old age, computers, as we know them today, would have been invented far earlier, that Manchester University would have become the "Silicon Valley" of the world and that Britain would be the locus of new technology development and a heck of a lot richer and more influential than it now is.
In other words, one minor act of institutional homophobia, at a time when such acts were commonplace, possibly ended up effecting the lives of millions of people in an adverse way as well as removing the possibility of goodness knows what as far as the collective knowledge of the human race is concerned.
Homophobia not only kills individual people
- it kills the future for us all.
Thursday, 19 January 2012
THE MIDNIGHT JUKEBOX
Five of the grooviest, coolest, most soulful jazz tracks ever tonight.
Cantaloupe Island - Herbie Hancock
Moanin’ - Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers
I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free - Billy Taylor
So What - Miles Davis
The Sidewinder - Lee Morgan
I'm wondering, was the drumming gorilla in the Dairy Milk advert based on Art Blakey? Their style of playing and their mannerisms whilst playing are very similar.
WORSHIP AT ST. LAIKA'S
A SERVICE
OF COMPLINE
THURSDAY
19TH. JANUARY 2012
THE FEAST OF
ST. WULFSTAN
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JESUS WAS A REPUBLICAN
I've always believed that Jesus was a socialist. But I've now decided that he may well have been a free market capitalist.
Jesus was a Jew living in Palestine. All his original workers were local labour. Yet as soon as his company started to take off he closed down the Jerusalem operation and moved his head office to Italy.
That's blatant outsourcing. Heck, Jesus probably invented the vile practice.
Jesus was a Jew living in Palestine. All his original workers were local labour. Yet as soon as his company started to take off he closed down the Jerusalem operation and moved his head office to Italy.
That's blatant outsourcing. Heck, Jesus probably invented the vile practice.
Wednesday, 18 January 2012
SEATTLE BISHOPS SCUPPER ANTI-GAY ARGUMENT
From THE ADVOCATE:
In a letter published late Friday on the Seattle archdiocese’s website, Washington State’s four Catholic bishops call on members of the faith to contact lawmakers and urge them to “defend the current definition of marriage.”
The bishops say that only heterosexual marriage should be legally recognized because it is “related to bringing children into the world and the continuation of the human race.” There are “forces already undermining family life today,” and recognizing other unions would exacerbate the situation, they write. They also say that limiting marriage to straight couples “does not depend on anyone’s religious beliefs” and that this definition of marriage “is grounded not in faith, but in reason and the experience of society.”
COMMENT: Bloody 'ell! If the Roman Catholics are going to start resorting to reason and citing experience they are going to bugger themselves as far as same sex marriage is concerned. In fact, they could end up with no Roman Catholic Church whatsoever. I mean, if you get rid of the unreasonable stuff from Roman Catholicism what have you got left? Christianity, I guess, but their present leadership don't seem too keen on that.
In a letter published late Friday on the Seattle archdiocese’s website, Washington State’s four Catholic bishops call on members of the faith to contact lawmakers and urge them to “defend the current definition of marriage.”
The bishops say that only heterosexual marriage should be legally recognized because it is “related to bringing children into the world and the continuation of the human race.” There are “forces already undermining family life today,” and recognizing other unions would exacerbate the situation, they write. They also say that limiting marriage to straight couples “does not depend on anyone’s religious beliefs” and that this definition of marriage “is grounded not in faith, but in reason and the experience of society.”
COMMENT: Bloody 'ell! If the Roman Catholics are going to start resorting to reason and citing experience they are going to bugger themselves as far as same sex marriage is concerned. In fact, they could end up with no Roman Catholic Church whatsoever. I mean, if you get rid of the unreasonable stuff from Roman Catholicism what have you got left? Christianity, I guess, but their present leadership don't seem too keen on that.
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“Don’t take care, take risks and make sure that the church is totally and utterly relevant. The reason I became a clergyman was because I was too bored sitting in the pews. There are so many churches that aren’t full of life.” (Canon Andrew White, Baghdad)
From CHRISTIAN TODAY.
From CHRISTIAN TODAY.
QUIETLY DOES IT
From VIRTUEONLINE:
On February 19, 2012, former Roman Catholics, Bishop Oscar Rojas Quinto and three of his clergy will be received as priests into the Anglican Church of Peru, along with their congregations from Huancayo in the mountains of central Peru. Bishop Harold William Godfrey, who heads the Diocese of Peru, called it a "reverse Ordinariate."
As a community of former Roman Catholics, they have suffered from persecution and prejudice. They have been accused of being "false priests"; their services have been broken up and legal action threatened. "These are brave men and women who have endured much for the sake of the Gospel. It is an honor to count them a part of the Anglican family," said the Rev. Ian Montgomery, Canon to the Ordinary.
Bishop Oscar, while becoming an Anglican priest, will still be honored as a bishop, albeit without the ability to confirm or ordain. He will still be ecclesiastically involved in overseeing his congregations in the Huancayo region.
COMMENT: I don't understand that last bit. Surely a bishop is a bishop. In England, our suffragan, assistant and retired bishops don't have the same authority as a diocesan bishop but they can, most certainly, ordain and confirm. If they didn't then our diocesan bishops would have to work for a living.
Other than that, well done Anglican Communion. If there is one thing that the mother church has bequeathed to the rest of the Communion it's reserve and the ability not to crow too much when we win. Unlike a certain Italian denomination I could mention.
On February 19, 2012, former Roman Catholics, Bishop Oscar Rojas Quinto and three of his clergy will be received as priests into the Anglican Church of Peru, along with their congregations from Huancayo in the mountains of central Peru. Bishop Harold William Godfrey, who heads the Diocese of Peru, called it a "reverse Ordinariate."
As a community of former Roman Catholics, they have suffered from persecution and prejudice. They have been accused of being "false priests"; their services have been broken up and legal action threatened. "These are brave men and women who have endured much for the sake of the Gospel. It is an honor to count them a part of the Anglican family," said the Rev. Ian Montgomery, Canon to the Ordinary.
Bishop Oscar, while becoming an Anglican priest, will still be honored as a bishop, albeit without the ability to confirm or ordain. He will still be ecclesiastically involved in overseeing his congregations in the Huancayo region.
COMMENT: I don't understand that last bit. Surely a bishop is a bishop. In England, our suffragan, assistant and retired bishops don't have the same authority as a diocesan bishop but they can, most certainly, ordain and confirm. If they didn't then our diocesan bishops would have to work for a living.
Other than that, well done Anglican Communion. If there is one thing that the mother church has bequeathed to the rest of the Communion it's reserve and the ability not to crow too much when we win. Unlike a certain Italian denomination I could mention.
WHAT TO BUY A MAD PRIEST
WHO HAS EVERYTHING
Although getting it through my front door
is going to be a bit of a problem.
Further details at NJ.COM.
is going to be a bit of a problem.
Further details at NJ.COM.
A VERY IMPORTANT HAPPY BIRTHDAY
PLUS CAPTION COMPETITION
It is with great personal pleasure that I can announce to the world that today is OCICBW... veteran, and all round pain the ass, JCF's fiftieth birthday. How our friend survived so long without being strangled is amazing, bordering on the miraculous.
We all wish JCF the best of days and a long and happy future.
Here is JCF (looking, I must say, rather babelicious in this photo - gorgeous teeth) with hiking buddy, Coco. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to come up with a caption to place in Coco's thought bubble. JCF has incredibly broad shoulders and, furthermore, deserves everything that's coming to him (her/whatever). So, off you go, then!
We all wish JCF the best of days and a long and happy future.
Here is JCF (looking, I must say, rather babelicious in this photo - gorgeous teeth) with hiking buddy, Coco. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to come up with a caption to place in Coco's thought bubble. JCF has incredibly broad shoulders and, furthermore, deserves everything that's coming to him (her/whatever). So, off you go, then!
JAN AND SUSAN TAKE IT TO THE IRISH
Inveterate troublemaker (on the side of the angels), Jan Nunley, is stirring it again, this time in Ireland. In the Church of Ireland Gazette's special supplement on same-sex relationships, Jan and her missus, Susan, write:
"We confess to some impatience with the fact that for two adults of the same gender to bond and celebrate a lifelong commitment remains controversial, even shocking, in some quarters.
"Ours is a marriage every bit as spiritually rich, full, holy and deeply Christian as any opposite-gender marriage we know, and more than many." The couple also argue that there are better ways of serving God than "critiquing and condemning the shared lives of two middle-aged American women of faith on the grounds of isolated Bible verses dubiously parsed."
I think the true nature of the Church of Ireland's attitude towards gay people is summed up in this quotation from the editor's foreword:
"There then follow two articles, both approaching the subject from a spirituality and experiential perspective. The first is from an American Episcopalian lesbian couple, the Revd Jan Nunley and her partner, Susan Erdey. Then follows an essay by an abstaining gay man, who is a member of the Church of Ireland but, for reasons that are understandable, writes under a pseudonym, Marcel Sanchez."
Understandable? Maybe.
Acceptable? Not in any country that claims that it is civilised and enlightened and certainly not in an institution that aligns itself to the great releaser of captives, Jesus Christ.
"We confess to some impatience with the fact that for two adults of the same gender to bond and celebrate a lifelong commitment remains controversial, even shocking, in some quarters.
"Ours is a marriage every bit as spiritually rich, full, holy and deeply Christian as any opposite-gender marriage we know, and more than many." The couple also argue that there are better ways of serving God than "critiquing and condemning the shared lives of two middle-aged American women of faith on the grounds of isolated Bible verses dubiously parsed."
I think the true nature of the Church of Ireland's attitude towards gay people is summed up in this quotation from the editor's foreword:
"There then follow two articles, both approaching the subject from a spirituality and experiential perspective. The first is from an American Episcopalian lesbian couple, the Revd Jan Nunley and her partner, Susan Erdey. Then follows an essay by an abstaining gay man, who is a member of the Church of Ireland but, for reasons that are understandable, writes under a pseudonym, Marcel Sanchez."
Understandable? Maybe.
Acceptable? Not in any country that claims that it is civilised and enlightened and certainly not in an institution that aligns itself to the great releaser of captives, Jesus Christ.
Tuesday, 17 January 2012
DON'T ROCK THE BOAT, BABY!
By Nelson Jones in THE NEW STATESMAN:
Whilst reading this I was reminded of an email I received last year from a friend who is in a position to know about such things...
"...the c of e, which to me has proven itself to be the most status-driven horrid culture of any of the ecclesial cultures I've encountered ( in the non fundamentalist world). All those pretty boys in lace and power shitting on those who are actually making a difference in people's lives locally."
Yep! That's my church. At least it was until they disappeared me.
I sort of see this as a love song between The Grand Tufti and JJ:
Whilst reading this I was reminded of an email I received last year from a friend who is in a position to know about such things...
"...the c of e, which to me has proven itself to be the most status-driven horrid culture of any of the ecclesial cultures I've encountered ( in the non fundamentalist world). All those pretty boys in lace and power shitting on those who are actually making a difference in people's lives locally."
Yep! That's my church. At least it was until they disappeared me.
I sort of see this as a love song between The Grand Tufti and JJ:
WORSHIP AT ST. LAIKA'S
EVENING
PRAYER
BOOK OF
COMMON PRAYER
TUESDAY
17TH.
JANUARY
2012
THE FEAST OF
SAINT
ANTONY
OF EGYPT
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Monday, 16 January 2012
THE HAIR OF THE DOG
From THE SUNDAY SUN:
The Brandling Villa in South Gosforth, Newcastle, is selling a special beer, made with beer ingredients of malt and hops and also meat extract, especially for dogs so that drinkers’ four-legged friends can enjoy a cheeky pint at the same time. And if their drinking makes them peckish, the pub has created a special canine menu with dog versions of human favourites, including a Sunday roast served with cat-flavoured gravy.
Thanks to Petty Witter for this one.
The Brandling Villa in South Gosforth, Newcastle, is selling a special beer, made with beer ingredients of malt and hops and also meat extract, especially for dogs so that drinkers’ four-legged friends can enjoy a cheeky pint at the same time. And if their drinking makes them peckish, the pub has created a special canine menu with dog versions of human favourites, including a Sunday roast served with cat-flavoured gravy.
Thanks to Petty Witter for this one.
AH! SOUL
From NEWS-PRESS:
Former nun, Judy Beaumont, is defying centuries-old doctrine in becoming the first woman in Southwest Florida to be ordained a Roman Catholic priest. Bishop Frank Dewane of the Diocese of Venice, has warned her not to cross that patriarchal line.
“It has been brought to my attention that you purportedly reside in the Diocese of Venice in Florida and may attempt to be ‘ordained’ to the ministerial priesthood here within this Diocese,” Dewane wrote in a letter to Beaumont. “This is a most grave and serious matter of consequence for your soul.”
The consequence is automatic excommunication, or expulsion from the church, the bishop wrote. The same penalty applies to anyone who participates in the ordination ceremony.
“With this in mind, for the good of your immortal soul, I exhort you to choose not to participate in this attempted ‘ordination,’” Dewane wrote.
Beaumont says she will follow her conscience and take the consequences.
COMMENT: My guess is that the good sister most definitely has a large and beautiful soul. Bishop Bully, on the other hand, probably has a a shrivelled up lump of pure hatred where his soul should be.
Former nun, Judy Beaumont, is defying centuries-old doctrine in becoming the first woman in Southwest Florida to be ordained a Roman Catholic priest. Bishop Frank Dewane of the Diocese of Venice, has warned her not to cross that patriarchal line.
The consequence is automatic excommunication, or expulsion from the church, the bishop wrote. The same penalty applies to anyone who participates in the ordination ceremony.
“With this in mind, for the good of your immortal soul, I exhort you to choose not to participate in this attempted ‘ordination,’” Dewane wrote.
Beaumont says she will follow her conscience and take the consequences.
COMMENT: My guess is that the good sister most definitely has a large and beautiful soul. Bishop Bully, on the other hand, probably has a a shrivelled up lump of pure hatred where his soul should be.
SPINNING FOR JESUS
A popular Catholic priest known for his devotion to his parish and work with the homeless, was sentenced to three years and one month in prison on Friday, after he used parish funds for gambling. Monsignor Kevin McAuliffe, 59, who was parish priest at St Elizabeth Ann Seton Church in Las Vegas, Nevada, was convicted of taking $650,000 (£424,000) to support his gambling habit.
His defence lawyer, Margaret Stanish, said, "Some supporters see the potential for something good to come from the realization that their trusted spiritual leader also suffers from human frailty, a frailty that merits forgiveness in accordance with their religious beliefs."
The Rev. Kovalcin from the Catholic Diocese of Las Vegas stated, “He must repair the damage he has caused and heal the people he has hurt. He cannot do that from a prison confinement.”
His defence lawyer, Margaret Stanish, said, "Some supporters see the potential for something good to come from the realization that their trusted spiritual leader also suffers from human frailty, a frailty that merits forgiveness in accordance with their religious beliefs."
The Rev. Kovalcin from the Catholic Diocese of Las Vegas stated, “He must repair the damage he has caused and heal the people he has hurt. He cannot do that from a prison confinement.”
Sunday, 15 January 2012
DON'T BLAME MADPRIEST,
BLAME THE NAUGHTY NUN
A woman and a man are involved in a horrific collision, but amazingly both escape completely unhurt - though their cars are written off.
As they crawl out of the wreckage, the man sees the woman is blonde and strikingly beautiful. Then the woman turns to the man and gushes breathily: 'That's incredible - both our cars are demolished but we're fine. It must be a sign from God that we are meant to be together!'
Sensing a promise, the man stammers back, 'Oh yes, I agree with you completely!'
The woman goes on, 'And look, though my car was destroyed, this bottle of wine survived intact, too! It must be another sign. Let's drink to our love!'
'Well, OK!' says the man, going with the moment. She offers him the bottle, so he downs half of it and hands it back.
'Your turn,' he says.
'No, thanks,' says the woman, 'I think I'll just wait for the police.'
As they crawl out of the wreckage, the man sees the woman is blonde and strikingly beautiful. Then the woman turns to the man and gushes breathily: 'That's incredible - both our cars are demolished but we're fine. It must be a sign from God that we are meant to be together!'
Sensing a promise, the man stammers back, 'Oh yes, I agree with you completely!'
The woman goes on, 'And look, though my car was destroyed, this bottle of wine survived intact, too! It must be another sign. Let's drink to our love!'
'Well, OK!' says the man, going with the moment. She offers him the bottle, so he downs half of it and hands it back.
'Your turn,' he says.
'No, thanks,' says the woman, 'I think I'll just wait for the police.'
MADPRIEST'S THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
In the non-evangelical parts of the Church of England the most vociferous opposition to gay equality comes from gay men and lesbians who believe being gay or a lesbian is a sin or are just jealous because they hid their sexuality and don't see why young people don't have to.
WORSHIP AT ST. LAIKA'S
HOLY COMMUNION
SUNDAY
15TH. JANUARY 2012
SECOND SUNDAY
OF EPIPHANY
All are welcome to join me in taking communion.
There are no exceptions.
There are no exceptions.
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JEFFREY FINDS HIS BALLS
From THE MAIL:
The Very Rev Jeffrey John, Dean of St Albans, has instructed an eminent employment lawyer to complain to Church officials after being rejected for the role of Bishop of Southwark. Sources say the dean, one of the most contentious figures in the Church, believes he could sue officials under the Equality Act 2010, which bans discrimination on the grounds of sexuality.
COMMENT: I wonder if they'll try the same dirty tricks with Jeffrey John as the Bishop of Newcastle, Martin Wharton, successfully employed to frighten me into dropping my case against him for blatant disability discrimination. At least he won't be up against the officer in Newcastle Diocese who told a union rep that any priest who took them to court would never work in the Church of England again. Which, if my present situation is anything to go by, was the truth.
The hierarchy of the Church of England contains some of the biggest hypocrites that have ever lived. They say one thing in public and do the opposite behind closed doors. They get away with it because they believe that they are exempt from adhering to the law of the land when it comes to human rights issues. For the sake of the gospel, for the sake of the Church for goodness sake, this has to stop. Perhaps, just perhaps, Jeffrey John, who is a Christian known for his integrity and patience, will be the person who will get rid of this embarrassing corruption from the Church once and for all. One thing is for certain, a heck of a lot more of the general public will be on his side and not on the side of his persecutors. So if they win they will lose. The Church of England will be dead within a few years, it's membership will consist of a few geriatric spinsters and a handful of misogynist, fearfully closeted gay priests. Remember the last episode of "The Rev?" A prophecy is my guess.
The Very Rev Jeffrey John, Dean of St Albans, has instructed an eminent employment lawyer to complain to Church officials after being rejected for the role of Bishop of Southwark. Sources say the dean, one of the most contentious figures in the Church, believes he could sue officials under the Equality Act 2010, which bans discrimination on the grounds of sexuality.
COMMENT: I wonder if they'll try the same dirty tricks with Jeffrey John as the Bishop of Newcastle, Martin Wharton, successfully employed to frighten me into dropping my case against him for blatant disability discrimination. At least he won't be up against the officer in Newcastle Diocese who told a union rep that any priest who took them to court would never work in the Church of England again. Which, if my present situation is anything to go by, was the truth.
The hierarchy of the Church of England contains some of the biggest hypocrites that have ever lived. They say one thing in public and do the opposite behind closed doors. They get away with it because they believe that they are exempt from adhering to the law of the land when it comes to human rights issues. For the sake of the gospel, for the sake of the Church for goodness sake, this has to stop. Perhaps, just perhaps, Jeffrey John, who is a Christian known for his integrity and patience, will be the person who will get rid of this embarrassing corruption from the Church once and for all. One thing is for certain, a heck of a lot more of the general public will be on his side and not on the side of his persecutors. So if they win they will lose. The Church of England will be dead within a few years, it's membership will consist of a few geriatric spinsters and a handful of misogynist, fearfully closeted gay priests. Remember the last episode of "The Rev?" A prophecy is my guess.
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