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Dean's comments show her to be 'out of touch'
I WAS dismayed to read that the Dean of Salisbury Cathedral, the Very Reverend June Osborne had publicly supported Dr Rowan Williams over his speech calling for parts of Sharia law to be incorporated into British Law.
Rev Osborne says Dr Williams may have been "politically naïve" and that "the law of Britain has got to work within he very high standards of human rights and Christian principles".
I would suggest Rev Osborne is also naive. How can she back Dr Williams and call for human rights in the same context?
What about Muslim women's human rights and the right to a fair, transparent and regulated trial?
Rev Osborne - you are out of touch with public feeling.
The laws of this land are based in Christianity and we are a
tolerant and welcoming society. We cannot accommodate the laws and customs of all the different faiths who choose to make their home in our country.
We should find ways of working and living together without
compromising our own.
DEBBIE ROCK, Salisbury
2:56pm Thursday 21st February 2008
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CommentPosted by: John B. Pope, Tisbury on 1:14pm Mon 25 Feb 08
Unfortunately the Church of England is riven with Political Correctness. One appreciates that every Faith is finding it hard to recruit Clergy. Parish Churches and those of other Denominations have unfilled Benefices. Many of which have been amalgamated or are at best staffed by Part Time non stipendiary Clergy.
One reads of a Rector in our area being retired early due to amalgamation. That 'our' Parish which has recently produced a couple of Bishops,and the Deans of Canterbury and Exeter is having difficulty in filling the vacancy arising from the Elevation of the last Incumbent.
It is a fact that in general terms C.of.E Churches do tend to be empty, the Electoral Rolls depleted. There have been Social Changes and the less committed no longer feel any obligation to attend Church Services. Others still go 'Not for the Religion but the Music there'. It is high time that the Church of England put its affairs in order. Roy Strong recently advocated that every Parish Church should be reincorporated into Parish Life.It should once again become a Centre of the Community, after all it was the Parish that built the Church in the first place, and on the whole did so in the name of the Catholic Church. One reads that attendances thereof are on the up and up due to the numbers of Immigrants coming to work in this Country.
When a Church is declared to be Redundant it tends to be 'sold off' Some go as Private Accommodation, there are three such, if not more in Tisbury alone, or as a some sort of a Arts centre, for instance St.Edmunds in Salisbury, or the Chapel thereby that is now a Disco. If one chooses to consider Southampton one Victorian Church is now a Temple. Another that springs to mind is a Village Church outside Wells, now hirable by the day and night for Private Hospitality.
Seemingly others see a use for Church Accommodation that the Church Commissioners let pass. There is a necessity to recognize that the Ecclesiastical needs to embrace the Secular. This just does not happen enough. Was Nero really fiddling whilst Rome burned?
What does the Church of England believe in? If its wish is to convert to Islam, or become homosexual, that fine but so far as I am concerned such matters seem an irrelevancy.
Unfortunately the Church of England is riven with Political Correctness. One appreciates that every Faith is finding it hard to recruit Clergy. Parish Churches and those of other Denominations have unfilled Benefices. Many of which have been amalgamated or are at best staffed by Part Time non stipendiary Clergy.
One reads of a Rector in our area being retired early due to amalgamation. That 'our' Parish which has recently produced a couple of Bishops,and the Deans of Canterbury and Exeter is having difficulty in filling the vacancy arising from the Elevation of the last Incumbent.
It is a fact that in general terms C.of.E Churches do tend to be empty, the Electoral Rolls depleted. There have been Social Changes and the less committed no longer feel any obligation to attend Church Services. Others still go 'Not for the Religion but the Music there'. It is high time that the Church of England put its affairs in order. Roy Strong recently advocated that every Parish Church should be reincorporated into Parish Life.It should once again become a Centre of the Community, after all it was the Parish that built the Church in the first place, and on the whole did so in the name of the Catholic Church. One reads that attendances thereof are on the up and up due to the numbers of Immigrants coming to work in this Country.
When a Church is declared to be Redundant it tends to be 'sold off' Some go as Private Accommodation, there are three such, if not more in Tisbury alone, or as a some sort of a Arts centre, for instance St.Edmunds in Salisbury, or the Chapel thereby that is now a Disco. If one chooses to consider Southampton one Victorian Church is now a Temple. Another that springs to mind is a Village Church outside Wells, now hirable by the day and night for Private Hospitality.
Seemingly others see a use for Church Accommodation that the Church Commissioners let pass. There is a necessity to recognize that the Ecclesiastical needs to embrace the Secular. This just does not happen enough. Was Nero really fiddling whilst Rome burned?
What does the Church of England believe in? If its wish is to convert to Islam, or become homosexual, that fine but so far as I am concerned such matters seem an irrelevancy.
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