Clergy critics living in past
IN response to your article regarding “flying bishop” Reverend Canon Glyn Webster appointed to provide pastoral care to those “men of the cloth” opposed to the ordination of women as priests (Yorkshire Post, August 30), I had to laugh out loud at the very thought.
What a ridiculous state of affairs the clergy find themselves in. Consider the flip side of the coin – what if your article had read “women bishop to visit all those female clergy opposed to the appointment of male clergy”?
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Hide AdIt is high time those “traditionalist” male clergy, realised they are living in the present and not the past. Fifty per cent of the population are women.
In my experience of women priests, I have found them to be dedicated, hard working and highly respected.
Driven up the wall by taxes
From: Richard Wood, Farnley Tyas, Huddersfield.
I AM mostly in agreement with your editorials but your “Driving force” article (Yorkshire Post, August 28) misses the point that motorists pay car tax, increasing fuel tax and a further tax on car insurance and despite all this income we still suffering from lack of investment from where the income is supposed to be going.
There is little pleasure in driving on British roads today for personal use and it is costly for business, so to encourage more ways of raising revenue is to miss the point that we are overpaying and the government is underdelivering.