[Times Online] 5 Jul 2008--The Church of England is in danger of "shattering" into thousands of stained-glass pieces if women are ordained as bishops, its governing body was warned this morning.
Members of the General Synod urged church leaders to postpone a decision on women bishops until more detailed proposals could be drawn up on how to care for opponents.
More than 1,300 clergy are threatening to leave the Church if women are consecrated to the episcopate without legislation enacted to protect them.
Prudence Dailey, a lay member from Oxford, said the "ladder" that women were attempting to climb was about to smash down through the Church's stained glass ceiling.She warned: "We are not talking about a clean schism. We are talking about a shattering of the Church, right now."
Calling on the Church to hold back, she warned that the issue would prove "far more divisive" than anyone could possibly imagine.
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