US female bishop Catherine Roskam: male prelates 'beat up wives'

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From The Times
July 31, 2008
Ruth Gledhill, Religion Correspondent

The Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, has challenged an American woman bishop to produce evidence to back up her claim that bishops beat their wives.

Other bishops also criticised the US Episcopal Church's Bishop Catherine Roskam after she said at the Lambeth Conference in Canterbury that men beat women "because they can".

She said: "We have 700 men here. Do you think any of them beat their wives? Chances are they do. The most devout Christians beat their wives... many of our bishops come from places where it is culturally accepted to beat your wife."

About 670 bishops, nearly all men, are at the Lambeth Confernce in Canterbury, Kent. A further 230, mainly from Africa, have boycotted it because of the liberal direction of the Western church on homosexuality and other issues.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article4431629.ece

[hedgehog]

1. Good for her!

[knitter4democracy]

2. The odds are with her statement, sadly.

Add in that some become religion majors for the sense of power they get, and it's more likely than most want to admit.