If the zealots truly cared about equality, they'd fight for female dustmen

All sorts of people who don’t believe in God and wouldn’t know one end of a canticle from the other have suddenly developed bilious, enraged opinions on bishops.

Now that (as universally and inaccurately reported) women have been told they can’t be bishops, the country is aflame with simulated rage.

I have to confess here that I am actually a member of the Church of England who goes to church more or less weekly, skulks at the back behind a  pillar, sings like a donkey and occasionally reads the lesson.  And I couldn’t give two hoots what sex the bishop is. I strongly prefer them to believe in God, and it’s good if they’re educated, intelligent and not too oily (oiliness is, alas, common among these functionaries). But in the end, they’re just area managers, who wear increasingly peculiar hats, often yellow for some unexplained reason, and who tend to follow a rather soppy political line in the House of Lords.

What’s really going on here is  a frenzy of dogmatic equality, part of a general campaign to abolish the old idea that men did some things, and women others.

Funnily enough, it only applies to certain jobs. I’ve never seen a campaign for male dinner-ladies, or for female dustcart drivers. It’s the traditionally male preserves, with a high standing, that get the treatment.

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