The culture wars are only just beginning

"The culture wars afflicting the Church of England are bascially over" says Giles Fraser with his usual mixture of ignorance and arrogance.

Is Giles Fraser unaware of the arrival of millions of Polish Roman Catholics into the United Kingdom?

If the Church of England is to minister to these new arrivals it is going to have to junk many of its liberal affectations - especially as the Equality Act requires all buildings in receipt of public money (as most historic churches are) to be available to sections of the community not just Anglicans.

Polish immigrants are not likely to want to accept the Host from the hands of a woman priest for instance.

Of course, the Church of England could always pretend the immigrants don't exist and that the Equality Act does not apply to them.

But I rather suspect that the culture wars are only just beginning.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2014/may/30/sweden-human-darkness-confronted-arts-church