First Welby, now
Cottrell…and there are many more…people in leadership in the Church of England,
who knew and know about abusers but did and do nothing about them and even
allow them to be promoted.
Vipers who, when exposed squirm and offer lame
excuses for their perfidy and their collusion with those who have destroyed the
innocence of our young. Snakes who, claim they had no option, that lawyers
advised, that promotions were automatic, as they license abusers to have access
to the vulnerable and see them promoted and honoured with greater laudatory titles,
even while knowing the young lives they have so damaged and destroyed.
This
vile coterie of men with their male God in their male club, has been exposed by
Helen-Ann, Bishop of Newcastle, who her
male colleagues have shafted, for saying Cottrell should go, as she said Welby had
to go. But in truth, all who have been involved, who have known, who have stood
by Welby and Cottrell and the hidden rest, should go.
Clear out the House of
Bishops and the Anglican leadership of the rot with which it is infested. No
child is safe while ever one bishop remains who has not the courage to face
down an abuser, who has not the moral backbone to ignore legal advice, and do
what is right to do, to protect children.
Who are these miscreant pretenders
after faith who for fear of being sued, or being charged with harassment, or
slapped with a restraining order, place children in jeopardy? Jesus faced the
cross, but they are unwilling to face a prison cell.
The law is wholly unfit
for purpose in this regard. It allows unscrupulous lawyers to have evidence about
abusers withheld and concealed, reporting restrictions and injunctions
enforced. Victims, some in Anglican leadership, can apply for such things too,
to protect their anonymity, but which perversely then, at the same time,
protects their abuser from being exposed, and thereby endangers others.
The
Church, the legal profession, the state, the police, the media and the judiciary
are all, in various ways implicated. They collude at worst to produce a protective
shield around abusers.
There must be
reform, not least a legal requirement to report any knowledge of abuse. Meanwhile,
the exposed like Cottrell and all the others in hiding, must go.
ARCHBISHOP JONATHAN BLAKE - MY LIFE - PART ONE
ARCHBISHOP JONATHAN BLAKE - MY LIFE - PART TWO
I AM PROUD OF MY WRITING, FOR JESUS’S SAKE, THAT HAS HAD ME FOUND INNOCENT IN HEAVEN, BUT TWICE A CRIMINAL ON THE EARTH. THE FIRST IN 1990 WHEN I WROTE A BIBLICAL TEXT ON THE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT IN PEACEFUL PROTEST ABOUT THE BOMBING OF YOUNG IRAQI RECRUITS DURING THE FIRST GULF WAR. THE SECOND, IN 2016 WHEN I WROTE ON MY BLOG, TO ALERT THE PUBLIC ABOUT A PAEDOPHILE, AND WAS SUCCESSFUL IN FORCING THE AUTHORITIES TO STOP HIM HAVING ACCESS TO CHILDREN. THERE WAS ALMOST A THIRD! IN 1997, WHEN I WAS ARRESTED FOR NAILING MY PROPOSALS FOR REFORM OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND ON THE DOOR OF CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL. WORDS ARE POWERFUL MESSAGES THAT CHALLENGE CORRUPTION, CONFRONT THE WICKED AND CREATE A BETTER WORLD. JESUS IS THE WORD OF GOD AND HIS FOLLOWERS ARE CALLED TO COMMUNICATE HIS WORDS, IRRESPECTIVE OF THE COST.
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