Libby Lane

[VectraMan]

Does she have a sister called Penny?

Not a 'church' person myself, but seems a pretty significant step.

If I were a church person I'd think I'd just be embarrassed that it had taken this long and not want this publicised.

[TheFaQQer]

If I were a church person I'd think I'd just be embarrassed that it had taken this long and not want this publicised.

400 years isn't that bad for a religious organisation where there is significant debate about whether the basic founding document forbids it or not.

Significantly quicker than the Catholic church, for example.

[DodgyAgent]

Yep, agreed, women have as much right to be as superstitously stupid as men.

Female Pope? not a bloody chance in that rats nest of misogyny.

Misogyny is greek btw. Mis = Hate gyn = women.

Is that where GYN and Tonic comes from

[BolshieBastard]

She's a bit, well, warty, isnt she?

[GlenW]

She's a bit, well, warty, isnt she?

Yep, she's definitely not a looker.

[DaveB]

Yep, she's definitely not a looker.

Pretty sure it's not an Essential Requirement on the job spec

[mudskipper]

Pretty sure it's not an Essential Requirement on the job spec

WHS. Would you comment on a male bishop's complexion?

[OwlHoot]

Not 100% happy about it, TBH. But on the plus side, she's bound to be far more capable than an early 20th century Bishop of Exeter whose potted biography I read over the weekend, Lord Rupert Ernest William Gascoyne-Cecil.

A lovable guy by all accounts, but completely out of his depth and stories of his eccentricity are legion. I suspect his family may have partly inspired the D'Ascoyne family in that classic film Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949), with the doddery vicar based on Lord William.

[GlenW]

WHS. Would you comment on a male bishop's complexion?

Yes probably, if he had huge growths protruding from his face as she does.

[mudskipper]

Not 100% happy about it, TBH.

May I ask why? (Not looking to start a , genuinely want to understand what the objections are)