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There is a report by Patrick Wintour in today’s Guardian that there are signs that the British Government may, at long last, be ready to tackle the endemic sexism and religious discrimination in the British Constitution.  The bar may finally be lifted.  Downing Street has drawn up plans to end the 300-year-old exclusion of Roman [...]

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Sexist Anglicans

Why is sexism still tolerated within the Anglican church?
In a hard-hitting article in The Guardian, Theo Hobson takes the Church of England to task for its ‘wet clerics’ and their failure to carry through a reformation of the church in relation women. He laments the fact that division and injustice are being perpetuated because [...]

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It’s not just the extremist Muslims.  It seems to be happening all over the place.
An American-Israeli woman visiting Jerusalem used to take a daily bus journey to the Old City to pray at sunrise.
“Every two or three days, someone would tell me to sit in the back, sometimes politely and sometimes not.  I was always polite [...]

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