Clergy critics living in past

IN response to your article regarding “flying bishop” Reverend Canon Glyn 
Webster appointed to provide pastoral care to those “men of 
the cloth” opposed to the ordination of women as priests (Yorkshire Post, August 30), I had to laugh out loud at the very thought.

What a ridiculous state of 
affairs the clergy find themselves in. Consider the flip side of 
the coin – what if your article 
had read “women bishop to 
visit all those female clergy opposed to the appointment of male clergy”?

It is high time those “traditionalist” male clergy, realised they are living in the present and not the past. Fifty per cent of the population are women.

In my experience of women priests, I have found them to be dedicated, hard working and highly respected.

Driven up the
wall by taxes

From: Richard Wood, Farnley Tyas, Huddersfield.

I AM mostly in agreement 
with your editorials but 
your “Driving force” article (Yorkshire Post, August 28) 
misses the point that motorists pay car tax, increasing fuel 
tax and a further tax on car insurance and despite all this income we still suffering from lack of investment from where the income is supposed to be going.

There is little pleasure in 
driving on British roads today 
for personal use and it is 
costly for business, so to encourage more ways of 
raising revenue is to miss the point that we are overpaying and the government is underdelivering.