Choices Over Women Bishops ; Helen Reid Is Quite Wrong When She Says the Anglican Church Is 'Going to Provide Quaintly Named Gender Havens for Clergy and Congregations Who Can't Accept Women Priests' ('Bibles, Bigots and Bishops', Western Daily Press, May 5), As Though It Were All a Foregone Conclusion and That the People She Labels Bigots Will Go Their Own Way in Their Own Special Dioceses.

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Helen Reid is quite wrong when she says the Anglican Church is "going to provide quaintly named gender havens for clergy and congregations who can't accept women priests" ("Bibles, bigots and bishops", Western Daily Press, May 5), as though it were all a foregone conclusion and that the people she labels bigots will go their own way in their own special dioceses.

A report by the Church of England's Women Bishops Legislative Drafting Group, chaired by the Rt Rev Nigel McCulloch, the Bishop of Manchester and a former Bishop of Taunton, outlines three possible ways forward.

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Choices Over Women Bishops ; Helen Reid Is Quite Wrong When She Says the Anglican Church Is 'Going to Provide Quaintly Named Gender Havens for Clergy and Congregations Who Can't Accept Women Priests' ('Bibles, Bigots and Bishops', Western Daily Press, May 5), As Though It Were All a Foregone Conclusion and That the People She Labels Bigots Will Go Their Own Way in Their Own Special Dioceses.

These are: the ordination of women as bishops without any special...

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