Why ask clergy about the Establishment of the Church of England?

I don't know what religion Ian Katz is, but he is obviously OBVIOUSLY not an Anglican.

Why ask clergy about the Establishment of the Church of England?

This is so ignorant it leaves me speechless.

Anglican clergy are not some Roman Catholic style hierarchy ruling the roost, or some band of Pharisees and Sadducees interpreting ritual law.

They don't own the Church.

In the Church of England the clergy are the servants of the people.

The people through the Prime Minister are supposed to appoint the bishops who in turn appoint the clergy.

This democratic process has broken down because the Prime Ministers since John Major have abdicated their responsibility so that the clergy have grabbed power and the result is this horrible state where we have celebrity big-mouth priests thinking they are the stars of the show.

As a church-going Anglican nothing that Giles Fraser or Rose Hudson-Wilkin might say on the topic of church Establishment can have any interest to me.  

They are both in their different ways too big for their boots and need to be reminded that there is a sin of spiritual pride.