Guido Fawkes' blog is one of our leading political blogs. I don't put political blogs on the sidebar but I do read them from time to time, especially Guido who is always entertaining. I had a chance to catch up this morning and laughed out loud at the post No woman no tie.
Sir Tony Baldry, resplendent in his bright pink shirt and salmon and cucumber Garrick Club tie, fulfilled his duty in the House today at the Second Church Estates Commissioner (the Church’s representative in Parliament, aside from that constitutional abomination that lets Bishop vote of legislation, of course.) Baldry was arguing for Women bishops, but as Ann Treneman points out, the Garrick still do not let women join. Nor do the Freemasons…Which reminds me of a verse from the Bible. I shall quote it in the Douai Rheims version:
The scribes and the Pharisees have sitten on the chair of Moses. All things therefore whatsoever they shall say to you, observe and do: but according to their works do ye not; for they say, and do not.
5 comments:
Classick!
IF he had any shame he'd be embrarrassed, but I don't hold out much hope.
Freemasons, eh?
I hadn't thought of that. Can we expect MPs and peers and Her Majesty's ministers to lead demands for women "freemasons"?
That'd be a sight worth seeing.
There are women freemasons.
Yes, there's some discussion in Guido's combox about that. What he should have said, perhaps, is that the United Grand Lodge of England (the governing body of masonry in England the Wales) does not recognise them and "intervisitation may not take place" though they may engage in discussions of mutual concern.
http://www.hfaf.org/ugle.htm
The real point is that whether Grand Lodge admits women as members, the C of E consecrates them as Bishops, or the Catholic Church ordains them as priests: these are all matters for the organisation concerned, not for the law of the State, and that is [part of] what freedom of association is about.
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