We Will Rise Again

"When [the Right Reverend Graham Leonard] was not able to prevent the celebration of this Eucharist [by a female deacon], his rhetoric became so excessive and his prejudice so obvious that he actually helped our cause. He attacked his dean, Elizabeth Canham, and me. He demanded that I “discipline Miss Canham.” I do not quite know what he expected me to do, but I was amused by his archaic language. When Bishop Leonard announced in the mid-1980s that “women could not be priests in the Anglican Communion because God had created them just to be wives and mothers,” I howled with delight. “These words,” I said in a prepared statement, “are spoken by the bishop of London in a land where Elizabeth II sits on the throne and where Margaret Thatcher runs the government. Perhaps the bishop of London does know know either what country he is living in or what century.”"

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John Shelby Spong, in Here I Stand

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