Monday, December 16, 2002

English Clergy Alert!
UK prelates seemed to be infected with a peculiar variety of "hoof in mouth" disease:
A Church of England bishop has attacked "sentimental" Christmas card portrayals of the Nativity, saying that Jesus's family were asylum seekers and the three Wise Men were part of an assassination plot.

The Bishop of Lichfield, the Rt Rev Keith Sutton, said the shepherds were not the lovable characters depicted in Nativity plays but were on "the fringes of society"...