Calls to Unseat Church of England Rejected by [British] Government

Premier.org ^ | 11/29/18 | Alex Williams

[marshmallow]

Ministers have rejected calls to sever ties between the Church of England and the state, saying antidisestablishmentarianism is official government policy.

One Tory frontbencher told the House of Lords on Wednesday there were no plans to "destabilise" the historical relationship.

Lord Young of Cookham said: "Who we are as a country is defined by our church and our state and the relationship that has been developing over 400 years between them.

"The Government value that relationship; we think it adds value to both sides and is welcomed by the country. We have no plans to destabilise that relationship."

The peer was responding to a question from Labour's Lord Berkeley who suggested Prince Charles ought to embrace a secular state when he becomes king.

He asked: "Is it not time for the new monarch, when he comes, to embrace this secular state and perhaps swear an oath to Parliament?"

[Dr. Sivana]

Oh, that reporter was chomping at the bit for an excuse to use the word antidisestablishmentarianism in an article.

[Petrosius]

Oh, that reporter was chomping at the bit for an excuse to use the word antidisestablishmentarianism in an article.

But I oppose the government position with contraantidisestablishmentarianism.

[Dr. Sivana]

But I oppose the government position with contraantidisestablishmentarianism.

The will have to be used a bit more to actually make the dictionary.

[irishjuggler]

The CoE has been busy disestablishing itself for 100+ years. Not gloating, as my own Catholic church is now largely run by knaves and idiots who look at the CoE and see not failure but a model to be emulated.

[Petrosius]

The will have to be used a bit more to actually make the dictionary.

Perhaps. But since these are politician how do we know that they are not just spouting pseudoantidisestablishmentarianism?

[Manly Warrior]

I have held to the principles of antecontradisestablishmentaranism, with a twist of protoantecontra added for flavor.

I thought Mohammadism was the official socio-religious position of the Brits? Really.

[Petrosius]

I have held to the principles of antecontradisestablishmentaranism, with a twist of protoantecontra added for flavor.

That is all well and good, as long as you don't go to the extremes of hyperprotoantecontradisestablishmentaranism. That is just a bit too much, don't you think?

[Jacquerie]

Emulated? How so?

[irishjuggler]

There are people in the Catholic Church (including some of the bishops and cardinals) that look at what the Church of England has accepted over the last century: artificial contraception, abortion, women priests, gay marriage, gay-married clergy, general cultural liberalism, etc., and want the Catholic Church to move in the same direction.