Further To Yesterday's Post

[poliphilo]

Canon Giles Fraser- who welcomed the protesters to St. Paul's when they first showed up- and told the police to back off- has resigned from the office of Canon Chancellor of the cathedral- presumably to distance himself from everything that has happened since. Good for him!  l love it when a person resigns on a question of principle. It's something that happens all too rarely.

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[chiller.livejournal.com]

I find it bizarre that it doesn't happen more often.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Me too.

[sovay]

Canon Giles Fraser- who welcomed the protesters to St. Paul's when they first showed up- and told the police to back off- has resigned from the office of Canon Chancellor of the cathedral

Having now read up on the situation: I am sorry they've lost him, because he sounds like exactly the sort of person who should be around St. Paul's, but it is honorable of him. I hope somewhere else in the church knows how to appreciate him.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I imagine he'll find little difficulty getting another post. After all, he is now a national figure.

[ron-broxted.livejournal.com]

First high profile scalp of the Revolution?

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Not really. More like its first martyr. Only, of course, he hasn't died.

[ron-broxted.livejournal.com]

I will give him Hero Of The Day status on Twitter @Broxted.

You're assuming the contemptible bastard HAS principles.

[wemyss.livejournal.com]

I think that unwise.

Re: You're assuming the contemptible bastard HAS principles.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Why "contemptible"?

Why "bastard"?

It's not that he was (and, really, remains) a Trot.

[wemyss.livejournal.com]

It's not even his association w the People's Republic of Wadham. (Cd be worse: cd have been Balliol.)

It's that, whilst pi-jawing incessantly from the Left and denouncing 'money-changers in the temple', the bugger is the most naked and incessant self-publicist ever to boost his ego and his prospects by tuft-hunting and seeking place and preferment.

Re: It's not that he was (and, really, remains) a Trot.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

But surely all senior clergy are tuft-hunters etc. Is he really so much worse?

One minds it rather less...

[wemyss.livejournal.com]

... from an old-fashioned Erastian than from an insistent 'radical'; there seems a certain added hypocrisy in the latter.

[ibid.livejournal.com]

Nice to know there are a few Christians in the c of e

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

One or two....

[ibid.livejournal.com]

The words camel eye needle sometimes come to mind

[daisytells.livejournal.com]

We need more like him -- in all the churches. They are conspicuously absent here in the States at all Occupation sites. Quite different from Civil Rights and anti-Vietnam War protests of years gone by.