@reasoning logic,
It's just another feminist bitching controversy. Some women resent being excluded from anything. And such women tend to rise to the top in organisations in media due to ratings chasing being the only business such organisations bother with.
They resented being excluded from the Long Room at Lords cricket headquarters and used lottery money, £4.5 million I think, which is supposed to be for charity, to bribe the powers there to let them in. They have used the same method in men's clubs all over the country. I was a member of one of them. We got a grant of about £250, 000 to build netball courts on condition we allowed them into the snooker room. The facilities in the room were crude and cheap. Plastic topped tables on long metal legs and hard chairs. Worn lino. No curtains. Next door was the lounge with beautiful fittings, plush seating and richly textured carpet, where the sensible women preferred to socialise.
Obviously they had to take over the Lottery first which was sold to us on the basis of raising money for deserving causes such as poor children and subsidised seats at the opera.
I'm always suspicious of these 2/3rds majorities in two electorates. In this case, as usual, the result is that the hierarchy keep in the good books of the termagents and don't have to put up with women bishops ( a contradiction in terms anyway) as a bonus. A win/win outcome with some unidentified abstract concept such as "The Laity" emerging from the backwoods to do the business and take the heat.
So the top brass don't get any bad things said about them in media and can continue campaigning on the issue for a few more years and thus be seen at the cutting edge of radical reform.
The C.of E. is a large property company anyway and provides opportunities for ritualistic penitence on occasion for well-heeled bankers, lawyers and insurance brokers.
It's a game of cat and mouse rl. I wouldn't pay it any mind if I was you. It's about being on TV basically, making an indignant noise.
