Brethren

A stressing time, what with many vicars assuming that they will be asked and must accede to express wishes from gay boy couples and girl couples to be married in the churches of the established faith, even though there is no formal rite or ceremony for the idea. Also many vicars assumed that the establishment of the faith by law is also a simple meal ticket to all and sundry, as defined and impressed upon by the powers temporal of some parliamentary organ. But tis not the case, since even at the height of the reformation, there are statutes of Henry VIII which recall that the spiritual is distinct from the temporal and that the idea of establishment is not what it seems. Though the king or queen is the governor, there is scope for freedom for the spiritual power. Indeed the solemn statutes of Henry still view the spiritual vs the temporal as a division of opposition, and a healthy one too.