Women Bishops

I received this today vi Kat fro the Moot Community.
If you agree then please write …

People have been invited to send in their views (to arrive before 30 March) to the Legislative Drafting Group appointed to prepare legislation for the Ordination of Women as Bishops. So we are asking for your support please, and to write (or email) your views to Jonathan Neil-Smith, House of Bishops, Church House, Great Smith Street, London SW1P 3NZ. His e mail is womenbishopsgp@c-of-e.org.uk.

We suggest you include the following points – in your own words:

Women should be ordained bishops as soon as possible.
The legislation should be simple, clear, final and unconditional (or you may prefer to say you want a single enabling measure).
Provision for opponents in conscience should not be part of the legislation but should be dealt with separately by each bishop.
To restore and maintain trust in the integrity and authority of the episcopate and the unity of the church each Diocesan bishop should be responsible for everyone in the Diocese and should be responsible for making the arrangements he or she judges to be right, for the care of opponents.
The Act of Synod should be rescinded as proposed by the Diocese of Southwark motion, and a debate on this motion should be held as soon as possible.
Since the Church has accepted the orders of women as priests and bishops, then in future those being ordained should accept those orders as valid in accordance with Canon A4.

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