someone forwarded this to me, an article from a few months ago, have our UK friends seen it?... The Church in England is compromising with the world....... https://anglicanmainstream.org/chur...shop-loses-religious-discrimination-tribunal/ Church of England priest who disrupted consecration of first female bishop loses religious discrimination tribunal by Katie Feehan, Mailonline: A Church of England priest who protested at the consecration of the first female bishop has lost a claim of religious discrimination at a tribunal after he claimed he was forced to retire because he believes women shouldn’t be ordained. Reverend Paul Williamson, 72, claimed he was forced to retire aged 70 – as is common practice in the Church of England – because of his unpopular view. His notorious campaign against women being ordained dates back 25 years when in 1997 he tried to sue the dean and chapter of St Paul’s Cathedral for appointing a female minor canon. In 2015 the priest publicly interrupted the ordination of Libby Lane – England’s first female bishop – at York Minster to object to it, shouting that it was ‘not in the bible’ and that it was an ‘absolute impediment’.
It's rather late in the day to lay the claim the C of E is compromising with the world. It has been ordaining women as deacons since 1987, as priests since 1994 and as bishops since 2015. Fr Williamson is not being discrimnated against. Church of England clergy have to retire at 70. He has left his religious discrimnation claim too late. I recommend he takes better legal advice if he is going to keep going to the courts and not losing.