Thankfully, my children's secondary school is going to be run by a University.

Baby steps.

At least this one acknowledges that their attitudes are not in tune with the rest of society to the point where they are turning people off their line of business.

You'll have to excuse my cynicism, but it looks very much like a PR exercise to me. When the Church is next accused of homophobia, they'll be able to point to this initiative in a bid to show that they're not. However, in real terms, nothing will have changed.

Bit like society as a whole then.

I caught a bit of the [iToday[/i programme on R4 yesterday.
Humphries was talking to two women, one who was in favour of women bishops and one who seemed to be saying that, whilst she personally wasn't against the idea, she was going to vote against it until there was some accommodation for those in the church who were sincerely against it.
Quite what accommodation she wanted wasn't made clear but I guess it would have to be a sort of "Yes you can have women bishops but not if even as few as one person says no" ... then she'd vote yes ... maybe.

Goodness knows how she manages to cast a vote in a general election.

Much the same was going on in the Lords last night with the latest stage of the equal marriage debate.

Calls for some public servants to be exempted from doing part of their job, along with a discussion about whether some taxpayer-funded public services should be allowed for all taxpayers.

Logic is not their strong point.

My favourite tweet from last night, though, from Ben Summerskill: " Spare a thought for some bishops today. Attend Synod to oppose women's equality? Or attend the Lords to oppose gay equality?"