Sexism And Bigotry Still Strong In Christianity

More than 1,300 clergy have written to the Archbishop of Canterbury saying they will defect from the Church of England if women are consecrated as bishops.

Members of the group, which includes 11 serving bishops, say they will take decisive action if two votes are passed this weekend to allow female bishops.

The move comes as the Anglican community is divided over the issue of homosexual clergy.

The letter, sent to Dr Rowan Williams and the Archbishop of York John Sentamu, comes before the meeting of the General Synod, the Church's governing body, in York on Friday.

gays and women having equal rights? That isn't very "christian"!

Love Thy Enemy, But Hate Women

As a female vicar in a small, rural parish, Reverend Yvonne Hobson might have expected to find a few doubters in her flock. But there has been little of the good natured grumbling displayed by parishioners in the BBC's The Vicar of Dibley when a woman priest turned up.

Instead, Mrs Hobson has been the subject of a hate campaign because of her sex - which culminated in an apparent arson attack. The vicar, 54, took up her post at a 15th century church in the seaside village of Paul, Cornwall, in July 2006.

For almost a year, she had few problems with her 100-strong congregation. Then she began receiving anonymous letters expressing hatred for women priests. They were sent to her home, to the church and left in the vestry there.

Police were called in to investigate. And last month, after a particularly frightening letter, Bill Ind, the Bishop of Truro, launched an appeal for information from the pulpit. Weeks later, a fire was started in the log basket on the porch of Mrs Hobson's £350,000 vicarage, near Newlyn. Someone had left a candle burning in the logs, in what police believe was a symbolic act.

The fire service had to be called to extinguish it.

Mrs Hobson said: "The whole thing started about five months ago. It has been very difficult and the police are now involved."

|Daily Mail|

Bend Over Backwards For Islam

Out of all religions Islam strikes me as the one which seeks special treatment most (Don't take that as a compliment christians). Islam makes ludicrous demands while at the same time taking offence to our unwillingness to bow down to those demands.

Muslims take every opportunity to take offence, And when they are granted special treatment - Like being allowed to opt-out of serving customers alcohol in Sainsbury's - They naturally Que up round the block waiting for their opportunity to "opt-out" of doing their job, You know, The thing they are paid to do.

Muslim teachers demand a right to wear a full body covering while trying to teach children and take offence when that right isn't granted, Completely ignoring the fact that 1) it isn't a requirement of their faith and 2) Will make them less able to teach.

40% of British Muslims want Sharia law in the UK. If you don't know, That is the law that says women can be stoned to death for pretty much anything.

The Mayor of London Ken (the fascist) Livingston commissioned a poll to find out how Islam is treated in the media and shockingly the poll found that 91% of the news regarding Muslims and Islam was negative. Of course if a report was done on news generally it would more than likely find that 91% of all news was about negative topics.

Every grievance of Islam is seen as a problem the west needs to find a solution to. maybe if Muslims are upset with the way we do things they should piss off and take Islam back to the primitive desert where it belongs, Sit in a cave and contemplate how bad it was over here for them while tribesmen stone their sister to death for the crime of being raped or hang their bother for being gay.

Muhammed Abdul Bari, head of the Muslim Council of Great Britain, Even went so far as to compare the treatment of Muslims in Britain to the treatment of Jews in Nazi Germany.

if you want to speak out about people giving Islam a bad name perhaps you could start on terrorists, People who stone women, People who hang gays, and people who do decapitations. Then people may take you seriously when you cry about having to serve alcohol in a shop, a shop which you sought employment in.

Hairdresser Sued For Not Hiring Muslim In Headscarf

The owner of a hair salon is being sued for religious discrimination for refusing to hire a Muslim woman who wears a headscarf. Sarah Desrosiers, 32, says she turned down Bushra Noah as a junior stylist to maintain the image of her salon, which specialises in "urban, funky" cuts.

She told Miss Noah, 19, she needed her staff to display their hairstyles to the public. But the devout Muslim insisted that wearing her headscarf was essential to her beliefs.

Miss Noah, who has been rejected for 25 different hairdressing jobs after interviews, is suing Miss Desrosiers for more than £15,000 for injury to her feelings plus an unspecified sum for lost earnings.

I am getting sick of people crying "discrimination" because they don't get their own way all the time. religious discrimination is supposed to be about discrimination based on your religion, Not about the practicality of your religious practices in the work place. If your headscarf is essential to your beliefs then don't apply for a job in a hairdressers, it's as simple as that.