Lord Carey has said that the Church of England "risked losing its authority by commenting on divisive issues such as migration", on which the next Archbishop of Canterbury ought therefore not to comment. Is there any other Member of Parliament and of the Privy Council to whom Carey thinks that this should apply?
As for loss of authority, how is Carey's abiding presence as a legislator any more acceptable than Peter Mandelson's? Oh, well, same old George Carey, the most prominent of that type which is now rather out of date, a sense in which he continues to exemplify it. I refer to Liberal Protestants with Charismatic backgrounds, who assume that their own experience is theologically normative, and who work from there.
The issue is their interventions on the subject have all been leftwing. He’s finally worked out that pious, pro-migration speeches from bishops are not very popular in the Reform UK era.
ReplyDeleteThey are not there to be popular.
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