Tuesday, November 12, 2013

WOMEN BISHOPS ENDGAME‭? - Poem

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

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