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A propósito da Igreja Anglicana

The Church of England represents a minority of worshippers in modern Britain. Others are clear. Roman Catholics will have no truck with women priests at all, or sexually active men for that matter. Nonconformist denominations are liberal-minded. So if the Church of England breaks into two over gay clergy, so what? It broke into two at the Reformation in the 16th century and it broke into two with the rise of Methodism in the 18th. Its numbers are steadily declining.

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When the Church allowed clergy to marry, and then to be women, they had to swallow a deal of biblical scholarship. They can surely do so again. This cannot be a problem.