It’s sometimes been said in recent years that the Church of England is still used by British society as a stage on which to conduct by proxy the arguments that society itself does not know how to handle. It certainly helps to explain the obsessional interest in what the Church has to say about issues of sex and gender. It may help to explain just what has been going on around St Paul’s Cathedral in the past fortnight.
近年來時常有這樣一種說法：英國聖公會(Church of England)仍被英國社會當成了一個舞臺來使用，在這個舞臺上，聖公會以一種「代理人」的身份去引導社會自身無法解決的爭論。這種說法無疑有助於解釋人們爲什麼對聖公會在性及性別問題上的看法會有著了魔一般的興趣。它或許還有助於解釋前段時間在聖保羅大教堂(St Paul's Cathedral)周圍所發生的事。
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