The breaking news is that Sandi Toksvig has demanded a meeting with God, over a friendly cup of tea. The BBC broadcaster has grown impatient with his vacillating human intermediaries and wants to explain to him what should happen in the religion that he allegedly launched. Love should come first, she plans to tell him. If he can’t reorganise his religion around this simple principle, he no longer deserves to be taken seriously as a modern deity.
The gay vicars that I know are sanguine
Toksvig is presumably unimpressed by the latest news from the Church of England’s Synod. As expected, bishops have got approval for their compromise: no to gay marriage, yes to church blessings for same-sex couples. It’s not enough, say progressives, including some MPs. But in reality it is enough: it allows most liberals to feel that the Church is moving on the issue. No surprise that it didn’t move all the way all at once.
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